Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-03-04
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1900.
Alexandra Gazette for 1879,
ONE OF THE OLDEST IND BE5E 6
TABLlSHED PAPERS IN TAE
COUNTRY.
,HEONLY DAILY PAPER IN NOkfd-
EHN VIRGINIA.
CIRCULATION STEADILY INCRSAs-
INS--ONE THE BEST EDTEH-
Using MEDIUMS IN
TEE STATE.
Tho ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. lst its
EsGSETsETsE ANNUAE VOLUME,

EsGETEETE ANNUAL VOLUME,
" negspsper that has won its long life by "the
survival OF the fittest' amid hundreds OF ]ourn'
sls that have been it, co:emporeries from TIM
to TINA during the four scoTo years that lis col
umns have shown ".he Gge and body OF III
times
The Gezetts sims to be journal of high chat
scter-early in the receipt Of nows and promp
in giving to its readers the lutcst adV!ces torclgA
and domestic.
Its policy is to do justice without fesr, favor
or affection; to give honest judgments of public
measures and public mon; but 10 trench on tae
sacred privacy of no 1nsn's hesrthstonc.
l. expects to Tendor faithful service to the city
the state and tho country by candid critlcism a
of men and events in the interest OF the people
of the Commonwealth Of Virginia.
With the coming year ell the loag tried and
improved methods of Masking q standard news.
TAPER will DO continued with such additional
facilities rs past experience justiGes the propre-
tor in believing will add 10 the capacity OF the
Gazette TO servo liz rcsdcTi
The Dev,s Of the National Capital will be care
fully looked sitter. The year 1879 Will SEQ tse
control Of both branchea of Congress returned TO
the Democratic Conservative party, and Inns
section OF the country, uni uatly dealt with Tor
many yesrs, may look to see fai-or measures III
suzu1atet. Since the scat Of tho Federal gov
ernnent was established in Washington the
Gazette has Esve. boon without full represent
alton in tho CORPS OF COTresD 0lGeut5 there, END
esoccal pans will be taken tat5 year that every
thing Of interest, especially such matters IS have
a special reference GO Virginia. shs! be PROMPT
II and fully reported. 1no proceedings OF tie
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Department:
CT the Government will fad their earliest record
in the columns Of the Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence Will Be uausn'
ally c.trsc:iva-.ull in everything that concerns
cur local Interests faithful III sill things. trench
| ant and graphic.
The record OF events in .lo State of Virginia
will be fully kept ~, but 10 tho intelligence OF
thst section Of the Commonwealth which nature
hiss bound 10 Alexandria By the curvature oi
ss that portion linked 10 Jig By the iron banda OF
| railways, the Gszo,ts will be especially snd IS.
sduously devoted.
The Business ard Commercial columns o. the
Gszatte will DC filled with tho earlies: snd Iaos:
exact commercial news, edited with such pains
taking Gaze IS will render 81 error, whore even
slight errors aTe dangerous, impossible.
! Tho Cattle 81 ark1ts Of Eli the leading points o
| the world whose rE.cS aIec. this market will DC
quoted, AID regular stsscGcnts OF tho Baltimore
| GEORGETOWN, Washington and alexandria sales
Of cattle will appear.
Tho Flour, Grain AID Produce movement;
will be noted dsly, srd ths sales Of the a exan'
sndria and eighbcfing markets given with &C
| curscy and dispatch. THO Grocery sEd ether
markets will receive constant attention, and thi
money or stock markets Of the country eplto
mixed foI liz columns. .uli details being given 81
20 siI stocks, ilc., which !;Gt Investors III ms
scuiIol OF thu cCult:y.
TO advertise il tnu GaZetto means NddiEcna
.rsao This, experiences las proved