Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-25
Alexandria uazette for 1879,

Tho ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. ls! it;
EIGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,
| 3 newspaper that has won its long life by 'tha
ais tina. have been its contemporaries from tim.
| TO time during tho four score years tha! lis CO.
umns havo shown tho age and body of tho
| times
The Gazette aims to be a journal Of high char.
| acter-ssrly in tn, receiD. of n,ws sndspromi.
in giving to ts readers the latest sdviceS foreign
| and domestic.
It's policy is to do justice wilhou! fesr favor
| or affection; to give honest judgments OF public
| measures and public mon; bu. 10 trench on tue
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 the interest Of the people
of The Commonwealth of Virginia.
With the coming yosr all tho long tried sid
improved methods of making standard news.
paper will be continued with such additional
facilities ns past experience justiie3 tho proprie-
tor in believing will add to tho capacity of the
GaZeLta 10 servo its reader,
The neWs Of the National Capital will DO care
fully looked after The year 1879 will SEQ thf
control OF both branches OF Congress roturnedto
tho Democratic Conservative party. and this
section of tho country, So uDjustly dealt with for
| many yesra, may look TO 500 fairor measures III.
augurateJ. Since tho seat Of tho Federal gov
ernmont was established in Washington tho
Gazette has never been without full represent
alton in the corps Of correspondents there, snl
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such matters as have
special reference TO Virginia, shall be PROMPT.
ly and fully reported. The proceedings of tho
Legislative Executive or Judicial Department!
the Government will find their earliest record
in the columns Of tho Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusu.
ally sttractive-ful in everything that concern:
our local interests faithful o all things, trench,
an! and graphic.
The record of events in the State Of Virginl.
will be fully kept up. but TO the intelligence OF
that section Of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexsndria by the curvature Of
it's mountains or the courses Of its rivers, as well
as that portion linked 10 us by the :on bands OF
railways, the Gazette will be especially and IS.
siduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns OF the
Gazette will BIO filed with tho esrlies. and mos!
exact commercial news, edited with such pains
taking care ss will render an error, where even
slight errors are dangerous, impossible.
The Cattle Markets Of all the leading points o.
the world whose rates affect th. market will be
quoted, and regular statements OF the Baltimore.
Georgetown, Washington and Ale1andris sales
of cattle will appear.
The Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will he noted daily, and the sales OF the Alexsn'
andris and neighboring markets given with &C.
curscy and dispatch. The Grocery snd other
markets will receive constant attention. snd the
money or stock markets Of the country eplto
nized for its columns, full details being given IS
% all stocks, &C., which ind investors in TINS
ection of tho country.
To advertise in the Gazette means additlona
rada Thic axna,ionr ~, has nroyad