Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-17

Tho ALEXANDRIA GAzErrE begiu5 January
| its ElGMTIETK ANNUAL VOLUME,
newspaper that hiss won its long life By ''the
survival Of the ft!es.'' amid hundreds ot iourn-
ais thai have bssn il, contemporaries from time
to tim, during the four score Years Tbs! lis ca
umns have shown "lhe ago and body OF tic
times"
The Gazalts siHs 10 be- y journs! o! high CT ~.
sc:er-,a,iy in lh, rsceip! Of news and promP.
in giving to its readers tho latest advices foreign
and domestic.
Its policy is to do justice withou. fear favor
OF affection; 70 give honest judgments OF public
measures and public msn; bu. 10 trench on the
sacred privacy OF no mans hoar:hstonc.
1tc1Dcc!s to ,oado. faithful! services to tbs city
tho stale and tho country By candid criticism
OF the COMMONWEALTH Of Virginia.
With the coming year all the long tried aud
improved methods OF making standard haws.
PAPER Will be CONTINUED with such additional
facilities Gs past experience jus.ifs, the proDrie-
tor in believing will add " the cIpacity OF the
Gazelt, 10 serve its resderI,
The news Of tho National Capital will ba cara
fully looked after. Tho year 1879 will see the
control of both branches OF Congress returnslto
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of tho country So unjustly dealt with tor
augura.o1. Since tho scat Of the Federal gov.
e-nment was established in Washington the
Gazette has never bcea without full represent.
stion in the corps of correspondents tbs'e. and
especial pains will be taken this year ths! every.
thing Of interest. especially such matters a. have
special refsrenc, to Virginia. shall be prompt
~ and fully reported The proceedings OF tho
Legislative, Executive OF Judicial Department!
CT the Government will End THAR earliest record
in the columns of the Gaz.t!c.
lis Richmond correspondence will be unusu.
ally a..ractve--Cul in everything that concerns
our local Interests faithful in sll things, tranch
an! and graphic.
Tho record OF events 10 the State of Virginia
will be fully kept up. but to The intelligence o!
that section Of tho Commonwealth which nstura
has bound 10 Alexandra By the curvature 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 BIO especially and a.
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
taking care IS will renGe. en- error, where even
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
Tho Cs!llo 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 salea
of cattle will appear
The Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will be noted daily, and the sales of the Alexsn.
andris and neghboring markets given with &C.
curacy and dispatch. The Grocery and ether
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of the country optic
mixed for its columns, full! details being given ss
10 all stocks, &C., which find investors in tnis
section OF the country
To advertise in the Gazette means sddiliona
rade. This, experience has proved