Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-03-13
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE FOR 1880

The Alez andria Gazette begun in 1890, is the
oldest newspaper in Virginia. and it has survived,
with low exceptions, all The public presses in
America which saw with it the dawn Of tao
nintteonth century. 1t lives too, not in decay
or LJc.cpit ba! full Of life and youthful vigor,
giving all tho nows. toling tho truth without
fear. favor Or affection, !renchng on the privacy
Of no mans home but fan TO tho brm with all
public information. and giving daily honest
Judgments Of public men and public measures.
II furnishes tic Lows kilograms Of the New
York Associated fress and Of Reuter's Euro
poan agency, being, with but two exceptions,
tho Only paper between Baltimore and Rich.
mond that is thus connected with the great
fountains of the worlds nows
With the coming year all the long tried and
improved methods Of making standard news
paper will DO continued, with such additional
facilities as past experience justifcs tho proprie-
tor in believing will add TO the capacity Of tho
Gazette TO sorvo lis readers. II expects TO ron.
der faithful service to tho city, the state and The
country by q candid criticism of men and events
in Tho interest oftho people oftho Commonwealth
Of Virginia.
The year 1880 will DO period Of critical in
tcrest in both tho Union and tho Common wealth.
The election of the eighteenth President Of tho
United States will take place. with sll the com.
binations precedent, and counts consequences
and settlements subsequent, will call for record
in the coming volume. The Developments OF
the financial situstion, which may portend kfllu-
ence End comfort or poverty and privstion 10
Thousands, Aro now in progress, and the columns
of tho Gazette will note each step as we'll as
chronicle The result. a new and striking foreign
policy is among likely eventa and tho absorbing
interest Of it canno. 30 overostmated. In Viz
GINA thGro is political chAos and industrial and
commercial depression. Tho way out of this
quegmire will fl msDy OF those paragraphs
with information of rare interest.
To .leot I'll tae demands upon ii il al excep-
tional year, the Gazette will be made WASH
INGTON and RICHMOND NEWSPAPER,
"a we'll as sn ALEXANDRIA JOURNAL.
The Richmond and Washington news of tho
past year has loft little to improve, but yot
greater effort will be mado to inaure absolute
pCrlGCtiOn IN LECsO departments
The ci.y of Alexandra will find as usual lis
dsy history in oacl evenings issue, and the
intelligence oftha.soclion Of the Commonwealth
which nature has bound TO Alexsndris by tho
curvsturc of lis mountains or tho courses of its
rivers as we'll sS that portion linked to us by the
iron bands Of railways. will DO assiduously
chronclcd.
Tho Business and Commercial columns Of tho
Gazette will be filled with the earliest and most
exact commercial nows, edited with such pains
taking caro- as will rondor an error, whero oven
slight crrors arc dangerous, impossible.
Tho Csttlo Markets OF all the loading points OF
tho world whose rates sEect this market will be
quoted. ard regular statements of the Baltimore,
Georgetown. Washington and Alexandria sales
OF cattle will appear.
The Flour. Grain sHi Produce movements
will be no.od daily, and the sales OF the Alexsn.
dris and neighbcr;ng markets givon with accu.
recy and dispatch. The Grocery and other mar.
kets will receive constant attention, and tho
money or stock markets OF the country epito-
miEed for its columns, full details being given
to all stocks. &c, which find investors in this
saclion Of the country.
Tho advertising columns Of the Gazette offer
Inducements which experience has shown 10 sf
ford greater returns for a small Investment than
shy other which can be made.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The beginning of the New Year, which in
this case marks the advent of another decade Of
the worlds progress, is deemed a tit time for
new features. 60 tina! from this date tho Gazette
for the country (tri-weoky) will be supplied at
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