Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-03-01
ESTABLISH 1900.
Alexandria Gaz&tte
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND BEST hS'
TABLISHED PAPERS IN TIE
COUNTRY.
THEONLY DAILY PAPER IN NORTH
ERN VIRGINIA.
CIRCULATION STEADILY lNCREaS-
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Using MEDIUMS IN
THE STATE.
Alexandra Gazette for 1879.
Tho ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. lst Its
EIGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,

Tho ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. LIST its
EIGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,
q newspaper that has won its long life by 1.-THE
survival Of the ittest'' amid hundreds OF Journ-
ais that have been its cotemporarles from tim
TO time during the four score years that lis col
umns have shown tho ago and body OF iha
times.'
Tho Gazette aims 10 be journal OF high char
scter-esrly in the receipt of news and promp
in giving to its readers the latest sdVices foreign
and domestic.
or affection; to give honest judgments of public
measures and public men; but 10 trench on the
sacred privacy of no mans hearthstone.
1t expects to render faithful service 10 the city
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 yesr all the. long tried and
improved methods of making standard news.
paper will be continued with such additional
facilities as past experience Justifes the proprle'
tor in believing will add TO the capacity OF the
Gazette TO serve its readers.
The news of the National Capital will be care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will sec the
control of both branches OF Congress returned to
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of the country, SO upjustly dealt with tor
many years, may look to SEQ fairer measures in.
augursted. Since the sest of the Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington the
Gazette has never been without full represent.
htlon IN the corps OF correspondents LHelo, anu
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing OF interest, especially such matters as have
Is special reference 10 Virginia, shall be PROMPT
~ and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
cfthe Government will find their earliest record
in the columns of tho Gazette
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusu.
ally attrsctiye-lull in everything that concerns
cur local intarcss, faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic.
The record of events in the State Of Virginia
will ba fully kept up, but to the intelligence OF
that section Of The Commonwealth which nature
has bound TO Alexandria by the curvature Of
its mountains or the courses of its rivers, as well
as that portion linked TO us by the iron bands OF
railways, the Gazette will be especially aid as.
s!duousy devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns Of the
Gszeite will be filed with the earliest and most
exact commercial news edited with such pains
taking care as will render an error, where oven
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
Tho Cattle Markets Of all the leading points OF
the world whose rates affect this market will BIO
quoted, and regular statements Of tho Baltimore
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria sales
Of cattle will appear.
The Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will be noted daily, and the sales of the Alexsn.
andria and neighboring markets given with &C.
curacy and dispatch. The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of the country epito.
mzeu for its columns, full deHails being given as
10 all Stocks &c, which find investors IN this
section Of the country.
TO advertise in the Gazette means additions
trade. This. experience has proved.