Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-22
Alexandria Hazette for 1879.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. Isl il
EIGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,

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newspaper that has won its long life by "tLe
survival of the fttesr' amid hundreds of journ.
ais that have been its cotemporsries from tune
| to time during the four score years that its CO..
umns have shown "the sge and body Of the
times
The Gazette aims to be journal Of high cha.
ac.er-osrly in ths receipt Of news and :premp.
in giving to its readers tho latest advces, foreign
and domestic.
lis policy is TO do justice withou! fear, favor
or affection; to give homes! judgments Of public
measures and public mon; but TO trench on the
sacred privacy of no mans hesrthstone.
1t expects to render faithful service TO the city,
the state and the country by candid criticism
of men and events in tho interest of the people
Of the Commonw wealth Of Virginia.
With the coming year all the long tried and
improved methods of making standard nows.
paper will BIO continued with such additional
facilities as past experience justHe, the proprio-
tor in believing will add 10 the Capacity Of the
Gazette 10 serve its resders
The news of the National Capital will bs care
fully looked after The year 1879 will 800 The
control Of both branches OF Congress rsturnedto
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of the country. SO unjustly dealt with for
many years, may look to 500 fairer measures in.
augursted. Since the scat of the Federal gov
ernment was established in Washington the
Gazette has never been without full represent.
alton in tho corps of correspondents there, and
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest. especially such matters IS have
special reference 10 Virginia, shall be prompt
ly and fully reported. The proceedings Of the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
of tho Government will find their earliest record
in the columns of the Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will DO unusu.
ally at.ractive-full in everything that concerns
our local intsrcsts faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic
The record of events in the State of Virginis
will DO 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 we'll
as that portion linked to US by the iron bands OF
railways, the Gazette will be especially and ss.
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 error, where even
slight errors arc dangerous impossible.
The Cattle Markets of all the leading points OF
The world whose rates affect th. market will be
quoted, and regular statements of the Baltimore,
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.
,urscy and dispatch. The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or sleek markets Of the country epto.
nized for its columns, full details being given as
% all stocks, &C., which find investors in this
ection of the country.
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