Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-05-19
MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!
ro RI DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN MAY

5,4S5 Prizes amounting TO. S32U,Oou
Whole Tickets $40; Halves IS; Quarters $3.50
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from TO $4,000, corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on
separate slips OF paper are eRcrcled 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 at 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 10 those draw
ing the first P-izes, will be entitled TO the rs
Approximation Prizes.
For example: if Ticket No 1880 draws the
10000 Prize those Tickets numbered ! l24S
ll24e, ll25l, 1882, will each be entitled 10
S4OO. If Ticket No $50 draws the $4,000
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54s, 54S. 55l
552, will each be entitled TO $500, and so on ac
cording 10 the above scheme.
The $500 Prizes of $50 will be determined
by the last figure OF the Number that draws the
$4,000 prize. For example, il the Number
drawing the 10000 Prize ends with No. i, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in | will
be entitled to S2O. 1.-THE Number ends with No
2, then all the Tickets where the Number ends
in will be entitled to b2O and SO on to o.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the
following rates which is the risk:
Certificates OF Packages, 10 vile. tickets, $50 OC
Do do do 10 halt do 40 OC
Do do do 10 quarter do 90 0C
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.
II Remember that every prize is drawn, and
payable in tull without deduction.
TB1 All prizes of s. 900 and under, paid i'm
mediately after the drawng-other prizes at the
usual time OF thirty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates tc
S. SWAN 4 CO., Augusta, Ga.
II Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala.
or Atlanta, Ga, can have their orders filled, ant
save time, by addressing S. SWAN & CO., a
either of those cities
V 4 list of the numbers that are drawn
from the wheel with the amount of the prz
that each one is entitled 10, will be published
after every drawing, in the following papers
Augusta, (Georgia) Constitutionallst Ne"
! Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta lnteIIigen
GER New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New Yori
Dispatch, and PauIding (Miss) Clarion, anc
Little Rock (Ark True Democrat.
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