Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-03-13
ESTABLISHED 1900.
ONE OF TIE OLDEST AND BEST Is
TABLISHED PAPERS IN THE
COUNTRY.
THE ONLY DAILY PAPER IN NOHrl
ERN VIRGINIA.
CIRCULATION STEADILY INCRSA5-
INQ--ONE OF TIE BEST ADVEk-
TISING MEDIUMS IN
THE STATE.

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. LIST lis
ElGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME.
q newspaper that has won its long life by "the
survival of the fttest' amid hundreds OF lourn-
ais that have boon its cotemporaries from tim :
10 time during the four score years that lis col
umns have shown "the ago and body OF tn
times
The Gazette aims to be q journal OF high char
acter-early in the receipt Of news and promp
in giving to its readers the latest adVlces iorega
and domestic.
or affection; to give honest Judgments OF public
measures and public men; but 10 trercn On tn .
sacred privacy Of no mans hear:hstone.
1t poets to render faithful service to tho city
tho state and the country by candid crit!cis1n
of men and events in the interest OF the people
Of tho Commonwealth of Virginia.
With the coming year all the long trlod Gao
improved methods of making standard news
Taper will be continued with such additlolal
facilities ss past experience justiaes the propris-
tor in believing will add to the capacity OF the
Gazette to serve its resdeT5
Tho nsws of the National Capital will be care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will see thf
control of both branches of Congress returned to
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
many years, may look to see fairer measures In
augurated. Since the seat of the Federal gov
eminent was established in Washington the
Gazette has never been without full represent,
stion in the corps of correspondents there, sno
especial pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such matters as nave
8 special reference 10 Virginia, shall be PROMPT
ly and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
Of the Government will find their earliest record
in the columns of the Gazette
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusu-
ally attractive-full in everything that concerns
our local interes!a faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic
The record Of events in the State of Virginia
will be fully kept up, but to the intelligence o.
that section Of the Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 Alexandria by the curvature OF
its mountains or the courses OF its rivers, as well
as that portion linked to US by the iron bands OF
railways, the Gazette will be especially and as
siduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns of the
Gazette will be filed with the earliest and most
taking care as will render an error, where even
slight errors sre dangerous, impossible
The Cattle Markets of all the leading points OF
the world whose rates affect this market will be
quoted and regular statements Of the Baltimore
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria sales
. 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.
curscy and dispatch. The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of the country optic.
mized 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.