Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-29
S. DEALHAM,
Mo- SO KING STREET.

1s1HL AItAaA..H.A GaZETTE AND
VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cell
bg.te its centennial year. More than three
quarters of a century ago 1t grew into life ere
sLicn of wants ana needs OF Inc people oA Inls
section OF Virginia
During all this period its prominent object mas
been to SdvaI CO the interests OF the people OF
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortunes
have been their tortuDes; 1t hss shared thelT
nros,ar,ty and suffered III their disasters. LIS
;cspirstion has been the desire to forward the
best Interests Of the community IN which 1t Is
,ocsted and lis own prosperity Is, as II has been
purpose!y made, lnseparable from that OF the
community it aims 10 represent. When they
grow rich it hopes TO-. reward commensurate
with its labers While they are poor 1t expects
TO work with them ard Tor them, expecting to
make their success the measure OF It's own.
The past Of the Gazette IS offered rs an index
Of it, future. 1t has never failed to avsll itsot
promptly Of al the improvements whlcn come
with the greater growth and more EXTENDED &, e X
pericnce of journalism. Every year NEW
T "a = t "a; MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPERS OF VIRGINIA. 1: will fur
nish daily complete account, with superhulties
only Topped away, OF I'll the currentEe"s OF the
world.
As the Interests of the people mainly centre at
home no pains will be spared to chronicle all
mstters occurring IL tie city hld nelghporhood,
csretully excluding unseclnly exp esslons or
o1CsS narrative aS INIT TO- journal thst Is
treasured st msny thousand hear:hstoAes OF
Virginia.
Hsi,ec..l attention will be devoted to present.
ing, us we'll from original sources OF Information
US from It's Exchanges, the news II Virgins, es-
pecialy such IS relate to the development OF the
resources Oh the State.
its coativulty to Washington gives the Ga
zet.o I'D early precedence over ali the Journals
Of the State in Intelligence Of the operations OF
the General Government, now u such VltSl I'M
portance TO the people OF the South. The pro-
ceediHgs o. Congress, seldom SO interesting as
now, will be regularly reported III succnct form
for It's columns but all matters of especial inter-
est in Virginia will be given in detail, snd the
full text OF al bills OF ocal interest will be given.
From the State Capital IL will receive carly
and accurate accounts Of the proceedings OF the
General Assembly and Of al! the operations Of
the State government likely to Interest the peo-
pie.
In its Commercial columns the especial fea-
ture will be plomptness and accuracy. Tho
farmers, Grove1g snd commercial people OF tie
State know they MAY DEFEND upon the
Gazette.
EsTIy and reliable reports of the Grain, Cattle
Grocery and other Markets will be furnished,
and the prices and position of the stocks which
are the subjects Of business transactions in this
ection of the country, carefully quoted
The continual tsvors OF those VINO have once
used the Gazette us an advertising medium is q
warrant for saying that pays to advertise nlts
columns Never before did it pay SO we'll to tell
tn, public wha; is for sale.
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