Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-08
Alexandra uazet!e for 1879

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began jan Is! il:
EIGHTIETE ANNUAL VOLUME,
| a newspaper that has won its long lille by the
survival of tho ll!esI amid hundreds OF Ioura.
| sis lhst have baan its cotemporsries from tia
TO time during the four scare years lhal Ne Col.
umus have shswn "the sgc and body vi sao
| times"
! The Gazette vi nls - Do joarnai .! hisA cha'-
scter-aarly in tn , receip. Of n,Ts and pr'mp
in giving to its readers tho latest sivice, torekn
end domestic.
| liz policy is 10 do justice without. fear, :lvo;
or Affection to give honost judgments OF puo'1t
measures and public mon; but TO trench On Ila
sacred privacy Of 40 nIaas hearths!one.
Ite1pects to reader faithful service 10 the cig
the stste aud the country by candid criticism
OF men and events in the interest Of the poOpis
of the Commonwealth OF Virginia.
! With the coming gear sill the long tried sal
| i'm proved methods Of making standard ne|:
| PAPER will be continued with such aidll'aaI
facilities as past experience us!ides tho proprIe'
Tor in believing will add - the capacity ot tue
| Gazette to servo its rsaderi
Tho news OF the NsLionsi Capital will bs cart'
| fully looked aftcr. Tho year 1879 will! 500 u;
contro! of both branches Of Congress rsturnsiD
| the Democratic Conservative party. and tails
section Of tho country, so upiustly dealt with for
many years. may look to SEQ fairer measures In'
sugursted Since tho scat Of the Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington tie
Gazette hss never boon without full represent.
alton in the corps Of correspondents thsro aud
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such matters rs have
special reference to Virginia, shall bs prompt.
~ and fully reported. The proceedings Of tue
Legislative. Executive or judicial Department;
of the Government will ind their earliest record
in the columns OF the Gaa cite.
lts Richmond correspondence will be unuau.
ally sttrsctivs-rull in everything tbs. concerns
our local Interests faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic.
Tho record Of events in tho State of QirginIa
will be fully kept up. but to the intelligence Vi
that section of tho Commonwealth which nature
has bound to Alexandra by the curvature Of
h mountains or the coursea oil its rivers. rs WEI
As that portion linked to us by tho ron bsnis o.
railways. the Gazette will be especially and a..
siduously devoLed
The Business and Commercial! columns Of the
Gazette will be flled with the earliest and mos:
exact commercial news, edited with such pains.
taking caro- az will render Ell error, where even
slight errors are dangerous. impossible.
The Cattle Markets of oil the leading ponts oI
the world whose rates affect this market will be
quoted, and regular statements of the Baltimore.
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria ssss
of cattle will appear.
Tho Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will be noted daily, and tho Gales Of the Aleyan'
andria and neighborng markets given with A.
curacy and dispatch. The Grocery aad other
markets will receive constant attention, aud the
money or steck markets of the country optic
mixed for its columns, full details 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.