Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-21
Alexandria Gazette for 1879.

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. l., il;
EEGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,
newspaper thst has won its long life By "a:
survival Of the fttest' amid hundreds OF outa.
sls that have been its contemporaries from tim
to time during tho four score years that its CD.
umns have shown "the age and body Of II.
timos"
The Gazette aims 10 be journal OF high cha
acLer-oary in tho receipt Of nsws and prompt
in giving to its readers tho latest sdvces forcga
snd domestic.
It's policy is to do justice without fear, i,vO'
or affection; to give honest judgments of public
measures and public men; bu. 10 trench on The
sacred privacy of no mans hearthstone.
It expects to render faithful service to the cts
the state and the country by candid criticism
Of men and events in the interest Of the people
Of the Commonwealth Of Virginia
With the coming year all tho long tried AID
improved methods of making standard news:
PAPER will be continued with such additional
facilities as past experience jus!iaes the pr0pre.
tor in believing will add to the capacity Of the
Gazette 10 servo its readers.
The news Of tho National Capital will be care
fully looked after. Tho year 1879 will see II:
control OF both branches of Congress returlel!o
the Democratic Conservative party, and !hI'
sectiono the couatry, SO uDjustly deal! with Tor
many years, may look to SEQ fairer measures H.
augursted. Since tho seat of the Fedora GOV.
ernment was established in Washington tie
Gazette has never been without full represent.
alton in the corps Of correspondents there, sni
especial pains will be taken this year that eve'J
thing of interest," especially such matters IS hsTe
special reference 10 Virginia, shall DO prompt
ly and fully reported. The proceedings Of the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
ofthe Government will find their earliest record
in the columns of the Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusl'
ally attractive-full in everything thu! concern
our local interests, faithful in all things, tre1cb'
ant and graphic.
The record of events in the State of Virgins
will be fully kept up, but to the intelligence Of
that section of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandria by the curvature o.
its mountains or the courses of its rivers, as well
as that portion linked to us by the iron bsnl. o.
railways, the Gazette will DO especially and S.
'iduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns OF 1n'
Gazette will be filed with the earliest and mo''
exact commercial news. edited with such pains
aking care as will render an error, where even
slight errors are dangerous, impossible
The Cattle Markets of all tho leading points"
he world whose rates affect thi. marke! will Dc
quoted, and regular statements OF the Baltimore
Georgetown Washington and Alexandria :s's'
# cattle will appear.
The Flour Grain and Produce movements
Vil be noted daily, and the sales Of the AieIsa'
ndria and neighbo boring markets given with &C.
uracy and dispatch. The Grocery and osne'
,arkets will receive constant attention, ard sn7
honey or stock markets of the country epi'0
lized for its columns, full details being given
, all stocks, &C., which find investors in thH
'ction of the country.
To advertise in the Gazette means sddi!i9nA
sde. This experience has proved.