Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-03-11
ESTABLISHED 1900.
ESTABLISHED 1900.
Alexandria Gazette for 1879.
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND BEST 81.
TABLISHED PAPERS IN TIE
COUNTRY.
THEONLY DAILY PAPEE IN NORTH.
ERN VIRGINIA..
CIRCULATION STEADILY INCREAS.
ING--ONE OF THE BEST ADVER-
Using MEDIUMS IN
THE STATE.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began Jan. LIST it
ERGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,

The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE began J an. lst III
ElGHTIETH ANNUAL VOLUME,
newspaper that has won its long life by "the
survival Of the fttest' amid hundreds OF Journ'
ais that have been its cotemporaries from tim
TO lime during the four score years that It's col
umns have shewn "the sge and body Of the
times
The Gazette aims to be journal Of high char.
acter-eary in the receipt Of news and promp
in giving to its readers the latest sdvices forelga
and domestic.
or affection to give honest judgments of public
measures aud public men; but 10 trench on the
sacred privacy of no mans hearthstone.
1t e1 poets to render faithful service to the city
the state and the country by candid criticism
of pen and events in the interest OF the people
Of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
With the coming year all the long tried and
improved methods of making standard news.
Taper will DO continued with such additional
facilities ss past experience justides the proprie'
tor in believing will add to tho capacity or Tue
Gazette to serve its readers.
The news of tho National CAPITAL will DO care
fully looked after. The year 1879 will sec TIE
control of both branches of Congress returned to
the Democratic Conservative party, and this
section Of tho country, so uDJQstly dealt with TOT
many years. may look to SEQ tairer measures in
eminent was established in Washington the
Gazette has mover been without full represent.
alton in the corps of correspondents there, and
especsl pains will be taken this year that every
thing of interest, especially such matters as nave
"A special reference to Virginia, shall be PROMPT
" and fully reported. The proceedings OF the
Legislative, Executive or Judicial Departments
of the Government will ind their earliest record
in the columns Of the Gazette.
Its Richmond correspondence will be unusn.
ally attractive-full in everything that concerns
cur local interests, faithful in all things, trench
ant and graphic.
Tho record of events in the State of Virginia
will be fully kept up, but to the intelligence OF
that section Of tho Commonwealth which nature
has bound 10 AleXsndria by the curvature OF
its mountains the courses OF Its rivers. as we'll
AS that portion linked to US by tho iron bands OF
railways, the Gazette will BIO especially and as
sduously devoted.
The Business and Commercial columns Of the
Gazette will be filled with the earliest and most
exact commercial news, edited with such pains
taking care as will render an error, where even
slight errors sre dangerous, impossible.
The Cattle Markets of all the leading points or
the world whose rates affect this market will DO
quoted, and regular statements of the Baltimore
Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria sales
of cattle will appear
The Flour, Grain and Produce movements
will DO noted daily, and the sales of the Alexsn-
andria and neigh boring markets given with &C.
curacy and dispatch. The Grocery and other
markets will receive constant attention, and the
money or stock markets of the country epito.
mized for its columns, full details being given as
to all stocks, &C., which find investors in this
section Of the country.
To advertise in the Gazette means additions
trade. This. experience has proved.