Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-03-16
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!
TO BE DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN MARCH
APPROXIMATION PRIzgs.
5.4oj Prizes amounting to...........S 100000
Whole Tickets $40, Halves So; Quarters S2 50.

J,4SJ Prizes amounting to...........S , 5ZOUOu
Whole Tickets SlO Halves s.; Quarters $3.50.
PLAN or The LOTTERY.
The Numbers from 10 $4,000. corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on
separate slips of paper, are encircIed 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 at the
same time Prize is drawn from the other
wheel The Number and Prize drawn out are
opened and exhibited 10 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 drawn out
APPROXIMATION PRIzEs.-The two preceding
and the two succeeding Numbers 10 those draw
ing the first Plies, will be entitled to the ZS
Approximation Prizes.
For example if Ticket No 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize, those Tickets numbered ll24S,
ll249, 1921, 1889, will each be entitled to
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54S, $40, 55l,
J52, will each be entitled to 5000 and so on ac-
cording 10 the above scheme.
The 5000 Prizes of $50 will be determined
by the last figure of the Number that draws the
drawing the $4,000 Prize eIds with No. ], then
all the Tickets where the number ends in will
be entitled to 500 1.-THE Number ends with 10.
2 then all the Tickets where the Number ends
in will be entitled TO $2O, and 50 on 10 U.
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
n L. IL A
Do do do 10 eighth do 1000
IN ORDERING TICKETS OR CERTIFICATES
Enclose the money to our address for the
Tickets ordered, on receipt OF which they will
be forwarded by first mail
Purchasers can nave Tickets ending in any
figure they may designate.
The list OF drawn Numbers and Prizes will be
sent TO purchasers Immediately after the drawing
II Purchasers will please write their sigma
lures plain, and give their Post Office, County,
and State.
IL Remember that every prize IS drawn, and
payable in tuI without deduction.
~ All prizes Of i 900 and under, paid i'm
mediately after the dr4wing-other prizes at the
usual time oithirty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates 10
S SWAN X CO, Augusta Ga
n Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta Ga, can have their orders filled, and
save time, by addressing S. SWAN Il CO, at
either OF those cities
u list OF the numbers that are drawn
from the wheel with the amount OF the pr re
that each one is entitled to, vii! be published
alter every drawing, in the following papers. -
Augusta, Georgia. Consttutlonaiist, New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta lHtelEgen
Ger, New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch New York
Dispatch, and Paulding (Miss) Clarion.
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