Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-24
Gazette for 1879

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. Isl il;
EaGHTYETA AENUAL VOLUME,
newspaper that has won its long life by the
survival of the fttsst" amid hundreds OF jOura.
ais tina: have been its contemporaries from tin:
to time during the four score years tbs! its CO...
umns have shown "the ago and body Of tue
times
The Gazette aims to be journal o; high cas'
scler--ssrly in the receip. OF naws aud prompt
in giving to its readers the latest sdvices foEelgl
and domestic.
It's policy is to do justice without fosr favor
or affection; to give honest judgments of pubic
measures and public men; but TO tronch on To:
sacred privacy of no mans hesrths!ole.
I! expects TO render faithful service TO the ci!y
the state and tho country by candid criticism
OF men and 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 standard news
PAPER will BIO continued with such additional
facilities IS past experience justaes the proprie.
tor in believing will add 10 the capacity OF taa
GazoLts 10 servo its readers.
The Dews of the National Capital viii! be Care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will sue t.;
control of both branches of Congress retu'naiu
the Democratic Conservative party. and tbs
section of the country. 30 uDjustly dealt wiih tor
many years, may look 10 see fsizer measures H.
suguratod. Since the seat of The Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington the
alton in the corps of correspondents there, sal
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest especially such matters as hs7e
special reference TO Virginia, shall be prompt
~ aud fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative Executive or Judicial Departments
Of tho Government will find their oarlies. record
in the columns of tho Gazette.
It's Richmond correspondence will be unuiu.
ally attractive-full in everything that concerns
our local interests, faithful in all things trench
ant aud grsphic.
The record of events in tho State of Virgins
will be fully kept up. but 10 the intelligence 0!
that section of tho Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandris by the curvature 0!
its mountains or tho courses OF its rivers az well
as that portion linked to US by the iron bands 81
railways, the Gazette will be especially ard S.
siduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns of !aa
Gazette will be filed with the earliest and mos:
exact commercial! ncws, edited with such paln''
.sking care IS will render an error, where even
slight errors are dangerous, Impossible.
The Cattle Markets of all the leading poin!sH
he world Whose rates affect thi. market will De
quoted, and regular statements of the Baltimore
Georgetown, Washington and Alexsndris GALES
If cattle will appear.
The Flour, Grain end Produce movements
7ill be noted daily, and the GALES of The Alexan'
'ndria and neigh boring markets given with &C.
urscy and dispatch. The Grocery and olnc'
markets will receive constant attention, and Inc
money or stock markets Of the country epi'o
nized for its columns, full details being given 81
0 all stocks, &C., which fnd investors in THIS
action of the country.
To advertise in thu Gazette means additions
sde. This, experience has proved.