Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-01-23
jiazet!e for 1875


its EIGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME.
newspaper lhst has won its long life By 'lh5
| survival OF the ft!ast" amid hundreds OF louru.
sis tba. have bson It's contemporaries from tim,
20 time during tho four score years Inst its %
umns hsye shown "the ego and body oi Ii:
times"
The Gaz ,!ts aims to be journal OF nig. lHaf.
scter-e.r!y in ID ) receipt Of news ana pr1iLv;
in giving to it readers tho latest sdvices toregl
and domestic
lts policy is to DO justice withou! fear, t4Vo;
or affection; to give honest judgments OF public
measures and pubic men; but TO trench on tue
| sacred privacy OF 70 mans hear.hs.ons
II expects to render faithful service TO the cts
the state and tho country by candid criticism
Of mon and events in the interest Of the people
Of the Commonwealth of Virgins
With the coming yoar all the long trio! a;!
improved methods Of making standard neT:.
PAPER will DO continued with such addition,
facilities IS paat experisGc jus!ides tho proprio.
tor in believing will aid - tho capacity OF tho
Gazette 10 serve its readers.
The Dows of the National Capital will ba care.
fully looked after. Tho year 1879 will SEQ tao
control Of both branches OF Congreas rsLurnott
tho Democratic Conservative party. and lht'
section Of the country, SO unjuaLly dealt with i'i
augursted. Since tho seat of tho Fedora! gov.
ernmen. was established in Washington tue
Gazette has never beea without q full represent.
alton in the corps Of correspondents there. sni
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing Of interest. especially such matters IS have
special reference to Virginia, shall be PROMPT.
~ and fully reported. The proceedings of the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Department.
ofthe Government will find their earliest record
in The columns of the Gazette.
It's Richmond correspondence will be unusu.
ally attrac!ivo-CuiI in everything that concern;
our local Interests, faithful in all things, troach
ant and graphic.
The record Of events in tho 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 of
its mountains or the coursos of its rivers, as well
ss that portion linked 10 us by tho iron bands OF
railways, the Gazette will BIO especially and az.
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 render an erto., where even
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
The Cattle Markets OF all the leading points oil
he world whose rates affect this market will be
quoted, and regular statements of the Baltimore.
Georgetown, Washingtonl and Alexandria sale.
If cattle will appear.
The Flour. Grain and Produce movements
Rlll be noted daily, and the sales Of the Aexsn'
'ndris and neighboring markets given with &C.
'uracy and dispatch The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of the country epi!O
nized for its columns, full details being given Sc
all stocks, &C., which find investors in tni
ection of the country.
TO advertise in the Gazette means sddtiona
Fade. This, experience has proved.