Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-13
STEADILY !NCREAS.
ING-ONE OF THE BEST ADVER.
Using MED1U Ms IN
THE STATE.
Alexandra Gazette for 1879.

it. E4GHTGETH ANNUAL VOLUME,
newspaper lha. hiss won its long life By the
survival Of tue it!s:r' smid hundreds OF lourn'
SIS tina! have baen il; contemporaries ifom tan
to limo during the four scofo years that It's CO..
umns have shown ".he aga and body Of TIE
times"
The Gaz,t.s aia.s - DO e journsl Of high char
ac!er-aariy in .hj receip! Of naws aud pronp!
in giving t., it! readers the latest sivcea foreign
and domestic.
It's policy is 20 DO justice w,laou! fear favor
or affection; to give honest judgments OF public
measures and public men; bu: TO trench on the
sacred privacy o: no man's hesrths!one
Il expects % render faithful service to tho city,
the state and TIE country by Il candid criticism
OF men and event, ia the interest Of the people
of tho Commonwealth Of Virginia.
With the coming year all the long tried and
Improved methods Of making standard news
paper will be continual with such sddit!ons!
facilities as past experience jus.iaas the propris-
tor in believing will add 10 the capacity OF the
GGzs.ta 10 serve its readers
Tho news of tho National Capital will be cara
fully looked after. The year 1879 will 500 the
control Of both branches of Congross raturnedt1
the Democratic Conservative party. and this
section Of the country, SO unjuatly desIt with for
many years, msy look TO SEQ fairer measures 10.
augurated. Since the seat Of the Federal gov
eminent WAS established in Washington the
Gazetto has never been without full represent
alton in the corps Of correspondents there. and
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such III alters as hsve
special reference to Virginia, shall be prompt.
ly and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
Of tho Government will fad their earliest record
in the columns of the Gazst!e.
Its Richmond correspondence will be uuusu
ally st!racsive-full in everything that concerns
our LEGAL Interests faithful in oil things, tronch
ant and graphic.
The record of events 10 tina State of Virgins
will DO fully KEEP. up. but to the intelligence OF
that section Of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandria by the curVsture OF
its mountains or the courses Of its rivers. as we'll
as that portion linked to US by the iron bands of
railways the Gazette will be especially and a..
siduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns of the
Gazette will be filled with the esrlest and most
exact commercial news, edited with such pains
tlking care IS will render an erro., where evan
slight errors are dangerous. impossible.
The Cs!lls Markets of all the leading points Of
the world who.e rates affect this marke! will be
quoted, end regular statements of the Baltimore,
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria salea
Of cattle will appear
The Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will he noted daily, and the sales of the Alexan.
sndris and neghboring markets given with &C.
curscy and dispatch. Tho Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of tho country epito
nized for its columns full details being given Is
10 all stocks, &C., which find investors in this
section of the country.
To advertise in the Gazette means additiona
rade. Thia experience has proved.