Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-02-08
70 py npAwy ZACH sATuRpAY IN FEBRuARY
APPROXIMATION PRIzEs.
5,4S5 Prizes amounting to. .S32

5,4S5 Prizes amounting TO-. ....p '%O,ooo
Whole Tickets $40; Halves ~ Quarters S2.'o'
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from to $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 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. Ihls 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 70
Approximation Prizes.
For example: if Ticket No. 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize, those Tickets numbered il2Ao'
ll249, 1881, 1882, will each be entitled 10
S4OO. II Ticket No. $50 draws the S5oooo
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54s, DAY. ool'
552, will each be entitled to $3OO, and SO on &C
cording 10 the above scheme.
The 5000 Prizes OF $40 will be determined
by the last figure of the Number that draws the
$4,000 prize. For example, II the Number
drawing the $70,OO0 Prize erds with No. l. then
all the Tickets where the member ends IN ] WI
be entitled TO $40 lithe Number ends win NO.
, then all the Tickets where the Number ends
il will be entitled 10 $50, and SO on TO U.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at Tie
following rates, which is the risk ~,
Certificates of Packages, 10 vile. tickets, Soo w
Do do do 10 halt do AZ W
Do do do 10 quarter do 20 w
Do do do lUeighth do 1000
IN ORDERING TICKETS OR CERTIFICATES
Enclose the money to our address Tor the
Tickets ordered, on receipt OF which they VIII
be forwarded by first mail.
Purchasers can have Tickets ending III any
figure they may designate. .u,
The list of drawn Numbers and Prizes Will oe
semitic pure hasers Immediately after the drawing
II Purchasers will please write their sigma
lures plain, and give their Post ofhce, Iouh'y
and State.
III Remember that every prize is drawn, aho
payable in full without deduction.
~ All prizes Of 81 900 and under, PAID I'm
mediately after the drawing-other prizes al the
usual time ofthlrty days. -,
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certihcatss u
S. SWAN Il CO, Augusta. ia.
II Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala
or Atlanta. Ga, can have their orders hlled and
save time, by addressing S. SWAN q Co'' al
either of those cities
~ A list of the numbers that are drawn
from the wheel, with the amount OF the p, re
,h., sacb one is entitled to- will be published
alter every drawing, in the following papers, H.w
Augusta, CGeorgia) ConstitutionaiIst, new new
orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta ln'eliiseh
Ger, New York Weekly Day Book, savannah y.
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New lofN
Dispatch, and Padding (Miss) Clarion.
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