Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-14
ALEXANDRIA GAIt5I'i'Ii' FOR 1880

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THIS Alexandria t5sza:!o, begun in 119a. ia The
oldest news paper in Virginia. and it has survived,
with few exceptions. MI the public presses in
America which SAW with 1t tha dawn Of the
nincterlth century. L. lives too, not in decay
or dec:cpit. huL full Of life snd youthful vigor,
giving All tho news telling the truth without
lcsr. favor CT affection !renching on the privacy
OF no mans home, but foil TO the brim with all
public information. and giving daily honest
Judgments Of public men and public mnRsuroF.
II furnishes Tho nnWa tnlesrsna Of tho Now
York Associated l'rhss and uG Reuters Faro
resn agency, being, with hut two exceptions,
The only paper hctw0nn Baltimore and Rich
mond that is thus connected with the grntt
fountains Of tho worltTk nova
With tho coming yenr all thn Icing tried and
improved methods Of nlhkinga standard noWs-
paper will bo continual with such additional
facilities rs past experience ius!iios tho propries
Tor in believing will sod 10 tho capacity of tho
Gazette to soryo its readers. 1t expects to rom
der faithful service IT, the city tho state and the
country By q candid criticism O! Mon and ovonts
in thointcrost nf!ho ponro Of tho Common wealth
Of Virginia.
The year 1850 will b0 p0rcd Of critical in.
terest in both the Union and tho Commonwealth.
1Nho o1opij, nF iho airbIao,ih prosiJnn. IF TIM
United States will tako place, with all the COM
bnations precedent, ard counts; consequences
and sottlomonts subsequent, will call FOR record
in the coming volume. Tho developments of
the financial situation, which may portcnd a1llu.
encc and comfort Or poverty and p1iyation TO
thousands, are now in progress, and tho columns
Of the Gazel:o will note zach step as we'll as
chronicle the result a now and striking foreign
policy is among likely events, and The absorbing
interest Of Il cannot be ovorostimated. In Vir-
ginia !hcro is political chaos and industrial and
commercial depression. Tho way out of this
GIagmro will ILL many OF thosc paragraphs
with information of rsrc interest.
TO meet all lle demands upon il in An eycop-
tonal gear. tho Gazette will BIO nsde WASH
1NGTON and RICHMOND NEWSPAPERS,
as well as IN ALEXANDRIA JOURNAL.
Tho Eichn"nl ard Washington news Of tho
past gear has lott little to improve, but yet
greater effort will DO mndo to insure shsoIute
Tho city nf Alexandria will find ~ usual its
daily history in Gael! evenings ssuo, and tho
Intelligence OF thalsecton of tho Commonwealth
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ihH BUSINESS aEH Iuiliuictcial Columns ut Lha
G"%HLln viii la Gi'r:l with tho earliest and most
easel cUinnrfcia! nnwa, edited with such rsins-
tski'E caro- "a Nli! r"n,"r hu error, whore even
Hi'Hht errors ~" h"n@"r"us, 'mr"ss;l'l-
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n""A"'' ana '"N"tH St*i""nnis at Tho Baltimore.
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don aud "'ghlr.ring markets. gwen with scru.