Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-03-12
ESTABLISHED 1900.
Alexandra Gazette for 1879.
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND BEST Eo.
TEBLISHED PAPERS IN THE
COUNTRY.
THE ONLY DAILY PAPER IN NORTH
ERN VIRGINIA.
CIRCULATION STEADILY 1NCRHaS-
ING--ONE OF THE BEST ADVER-
Using MEDIUMS IN
THE STATE.
Tho ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. lat it,
ElGHTIETE ANNUAL VOLUME,

ElGHTIETE ANNUAL VOLUME,
q newspsper that has won its long life by "the
survival of the fttest" amid hundreds Of journ-
Hls that have been its cotemporarles from tim
to time during the four score years that Its col
umns have shown 1.-THE age and body OF ths
times
The Gazstto aims to be a journal of high char.
seter-ea.ly in the receipt Of news and promp
in giving to its readers the latest advices toreign
and domestic.
It's policy ia to DO justice without fear. fsvo.
or affection; to give honest Judgments OF public
sacred privacy of no mans hearthstone.
1t expects to render faithful service to the city
the State ard tho country by candid criticism
of rIen and events in the interest OF the people
Of The Commonwealth of Virginia:
With lhe coming year all the long tfiec hnd
improved methods of making standard news,
Paper Will be continued with such additional
facilities So past experience ustifes the proprie-
tor in believing will add to the capacity OF the
Gazette to serve its readers.
The news OF the National Capital viii! oe care
fully looked sitter. The year 1879 will sec the
control of both branches of Congress returned TO
the Democratic Conservative party, and TINS
section of the country, so upjustly dealt with TOR
many years, may look to see tslrer measures IN
augurated. Since the scat Of the Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington the
Gazette has never been without a full represent,
alton in the corps of correspondents there, ana
espocal pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest especially such matters as have
a specisl reference to Virginia, shall be PROMPT
ly and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
of the Government will find their earliest record
in the columns of the Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusu-
ally attractive-full in everything that concerns
our local interests, faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic.
The record of events in the State Of Virginia
will be fully kept up, but to the intelligence or
that section of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandria by the curvature OF
its mountains or the courses of its rivers SO well
as that portion linked to us by the iron bands OF
railways the Gazette will DO especially and as
sduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns Of the
Gazette will be filed with the earliest and most
exact commercial news, edited with such pains.
taking care as will render an error, where even
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
The Cattle 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 sales
o 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 eplto.
mizeo for its columns full details being given az
10 all stocks, &C., which find investors In this
section of the country.
To advertise in the Gazette means addiGons
trade This aYparianca has DrOyad