Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-02-27
-ESTABLISHE 1900.
A1exandria Gazette
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TEBLlSHED PAPERS III THE
COUNTRY.
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Alexandra Gazette for 1879
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. ist it:
EEGHTaETEa ANNUkL. VOLUME,

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. lst it:
EEGMTIETEd ANNUAL VOLUME,
q newspaper that has won its long life BY 'the
survival of the fttest" smid hundreds of journ.
MS that have been its cotemporaries from tim
to time during the four score years that lis col
umns hsve shown ''the sge and body OF th'
times
The Gazalts aims 10 BIO 6 journal of high cha.-
scter-eary in the receipt Of news and promp
in giving to ta readers the latest sdviccs, orega
and domestic.
lts policy is TO DO justice without fear, favor
or affection to give honest judgments of public
measures and public men; but 10 trench on TIE
sacred privacy of no n,sn's hesrthstone.
1t e1p poets to render faithful service to the city
the ats.o and tho country by candid CRITICS u
Of men end events in the interest Of the people
Of the Commonwealth of Virgins:
With the coming year all the long tried and
improved methods OF making standard neHs.
uaper will be continued with such additional
facilities as past experience justifes the proprie.
tor in believing will add to the capacity CT the
Gazette 10 scrvo it's readers.
The news of the National Capital will be care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will see the
control of both branches of Congress returned to
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of the country, so uDJustly dealt with Tor
many years, may lock to SEQ tairor measures In
suguratcd. Since the seat of the Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington the
GSZetLe mas uSVeI Deeu u iOiA AoPA osS1t
ation in the corps Of correspondents there, snd
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such matters as nave
8 special reference TO Virginia, shall be PROMPT
~ and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive roJudlcial Department
of the Government will find their earliest record
in the columns Of the Gazette.
lis Richmond correspondence will DO unusu.
silly sttrsctive-tull in everything thai concerns
cur local interests, faithful all things, trench
ant and graphic.
The record of events in the 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 o.
its mountains or the courses of its rivers, 80 vel
80 that portion linked to US by the iron bands Of
railways, the Gazette will DO especially sEd as'
siduously 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 ever
slight errors aye dangerous, impossible
The Cattle Markets of all the lesdiDg points @
The world whose rates affect th, market will bt
quoted and regular statements of the Baltimore
Georgetown, Washington and AlexaEdris SALE
of cattle will appear.
The Flour, GRAIN and Produce movement
will ee noted daily, and the sales of the Alexsn
andris and neighboring markets given with &C
curacy End dispatch. The Grocery and othe
markets will receive constant attention, and tn
money or stock markets OF the country epllo
miZea for its columns, full deNsils being given a
10 all ttocke, &C., which find investors IN tn!
sccnon OF the country.
10 advertise in the Gazette means additiona
trade. This. experience has proved.