Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-04
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MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!
TO Blk DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN JUNE.
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
5,4S5 Prizes amounting to. 100000
Whole Tickets $40; Halves SIS; Quarters 81. so

5,4S5 Prizes amounting to. 1920, 900
Whole Tickets $40; Halves S.; Quarters 81. so
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY
The Numbers from 10 $4,000, corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on
separate slips Of paper, are encircled with small
tin tubes, and placed in one wheel
The first 457 Prizes, similarly printed and en-
circled, are placed in another wheel.
The wheels are then revolved, and a number
is drawn from the wheel OF Numbers, and al the
same time Prize is drawn from the other
wheel The Number and Prize drawn out are
opened and exhibited TO the audience, and regis
tered by the Commissioners, the Prize being
placed against the number drawn. This opera
ton is repeated until all the Prizes are draw out
APPROXIMATION PRIzEs.-The two preceding
and the two succeeding Numbers TO those draw
ing the first Plies, will be entitled to the 2S
Approximation Prizes
For example: if Ticket No. 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize, those Tickets numbered ll24S,
ll249, 1881, 1882, will each be entitled 10
$4OO. If Ticket No. $50 draws the 100000
Prize, those Tickets numbered j4o, 54@. 55l,
552, will each be entitled to $500, and so OH ac-
cording 10 the above scheme.
The 5000 Prizes of $50 will be determined
by the last figure OF the Number that draws the
$4,000 prize. For example, If the Number
drawing the $4,000 Prize ends with No. l, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in will
be entitled to 500 1.-THE Number ends with No.
2, then all the Tickets where the Number ends
in will be entitled to $40, and so on to 0.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the
following rates, which is the risk
Certificates of Packages, 10 vile. tickets, $50 90
Do do do 10 halt do 40 90
Do do do 10 quarter do 1000
Do do do lOeighth do 1000
IN ORDERING TICKETS OR CERTIFICATES
Enclose the money TO our address for the
Tickets ordered, on receipt OF which they vii.
be forwarded by first mail.
Purchasers can have Tickets ending in any
figure they may designate.
The list of drawn Numbers and Prizes will be
sent to purchasers Immediately after the drawing
e Purchasers will please write their sigma
lures plain, and give their Post Office, County,
and State.
III Remember that every prize is drawn, and
payable in full without deduction.
Y All prizes OF 81 900 and under, paid i'm
mediately after the drawing-other prizes at the
usual time otthirty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates TO
). SWAN Il %, Augusta. ia.
II Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta, Ga, can have their orders filled, and
save time, by addressing S. SWAN x CO., al
either of those cities.
r. A list of the numbers that are drawn
from the wheel, with the amount of the prize
that each one is entitled 10, will be published
after every drawing, in the following papers
Augusta, Georgia. Constitutionalist, New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta lnteligen
Ger, New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New York
Dispatch, Paulding (Miss) Clarion, and Little
Rock ARK True Democrat. my 3l-dtd