Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-12-19
ESEABLISIED 1900.
AlexaMdria 0azette
ONE OF TIE OLDEST AND BEST ES-
TABLISEED PAPERS IN The
COUNTRY.
TIE ONLY DAILY PAPER IN NORTH
ERN VIRGINIA.
CIRCULATION STEADILY lNCHEAS'
ING-ONM OF THE BEST ADVEK-
Using MEDIUMS IN
THE STATE.
aLEIsJNDEIa GAZETTE FOB 1870,

The Alexandria Gaze:ts begins January ita
eightislh annual volume, q newspaper tGst mas
won Its long life by 'the survival ct tns tttest'
amid hundreds Of Journals that nave oee1 us
contemporaries from time to time during the four
score years thst its columns have shown the
ago aud body Of the times"
The Gszette aims TO be Journal Of high char.
acter-sarly in the receipt Of naws and prom pit
in giving to its readers The --latest sdV;ces. foreign
and domestic.
Its policy is to Go justice without :oar, favor
or affection; to give honest Judgments OF public
measures and public meu; but TO trefcn on the
sacred priVacy of no mans hearthstone
1t e1 poets to render faithful service 10 tho city,
the stxte and the country by candid criticism
of men aud events in the interest OF the people
of the Commonwealth Of Virginia
With the coming year all the long tried and
improved methods OF making e standard news.
Taper will be continued with such additional
facilities IS past exrerenc justifes the proprie-
tor in believing will add to the capacity ct tho
Gazette 10 serve It's readers.
The news of the Nstions! Capital will be care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will see the
control OF both bfoI cia OF Go ngress returned to
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of tho country SO unjnsLly dealt With tor
many years may LOOK to see fsirer measures in
augurated. Since the scat Of the Federal gov.
eminent Was established IN Washington the
Gszette has never been without q full represent
alton in the corps of correspondents there, and
especial pains will ce taken This year that every
thing of interest Especially such matters as have
d special reference to Virginia, shall DO prompt
~ and fully reported. Tho proceedings of the
Legislative, Executive or judicial Departments
of the Government will find theiz earliest record
in the columns Of tho Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusu.
ally at.rsctve-full in everything that concerns
cur local Interests, faithful ia all things, trench
ant and graphic.
The record of events in the State of VirgiRis
will be fully KEEP: up. but to the intelligence OF
that section Of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandria by the curvature OF
it's mountains or the courses of its rivers, well
rs that portion linked to US by the iron bands Of
railways, the Gazette will DO especially and s3.
siduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns of the
Gazette will be filed with the earliest and mos.
exact commercial news, edited with such PAINS
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
The Cattle Markets of all the leading points of
the world whose rates affect this market will be
quoted, and regular statements Of the Baltimore,
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria sales
Of cattle will appear.
The Fleur, Grain and Produce movements
will no noted daily, and the sales of the Alexan-
andris and neighboring markets given with &C.
curacy and dispatch. The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets Of the country epito.
miZad for its columns, full details being given as
to all stocks &c, which find investors in this
section Of the country.
TO advertise in the Gazette means additional
trade. This, experience has proved.