Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-11
MAGNIFICENT SCHEMEl
70 pE DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN JANUARY
APPROXIMATION Prizes.
5.4DO Prizes amounting to...........b $4,000
Whole Tickets $50; Halves -; Quarters 81.

54DO Prizes amounting gto...........B32OOO0
Whole Tickets $50; Halves 49, Quarters $3.50
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from TO 10000, 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 462 Prizes similarly printed and en-.
circled, are placed in another wheel.
The wheels are then revolyed, and 4 number
is drawn IRON 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 drawn out.
APPROXIMATION PRIzEs.-The two preceding
and the two succeeding Numbers TO those draw
ing the first Prizes vii! be entitled TO the IS
Approximation Prizes.
For example. if Ticket No 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize. those Tickets numbered ll24S,
ll249, ll25l, 1882, will each be entitled to
$500. If Ticket No. $50 draws the $4,000
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54S, 5i9. 55l,
J52 will each be entitled 10 $500, aud so on &C
cording TO the above scheme.
The 5000 Prizes of go will be determined
by the last figure of the Number that draws the
$4,000 prize. For example, if the Number
drawing the 100000 Prize ends with No. /, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in | will
be entitled TO 500 lfthe Number ends with 40.
2 then all the Tickets where the Number ends
in will be entitled to $40, and SO on to o.
Certificates OF Packages will be sold at the
following rates, which is the risk:
Certificates OF Packages, ~ vile tickets, $50 90
Do do do 10 halt do 10 90
Do do do 10 quarter do 1000
Do do do ~ 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 have Tickets ending in any
figure they may designate
The list OF drawn Numbers aud Prizes will be
sentto purchasers Immediately after the drawing
IL Purchasers will please write their sigma
tures plain, and give their Post Office, County,
and State.
IL Remember thatevery prize is drawn and
payable in lull without deduction.
~ All prizes OF j. 900 and under, paid i'm
mediatrly after the drawlmg-Other prizes at the
usual time oithirty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates TO
S SWAN 4 Co, Augusta, Ga
CS' Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta, Ga, can have their orders filled, and
save time. by addressing 5. SWAN & CO, at
rirher Of those cities.
I-y- 4 list OF the numbers that are drawn
1om the wheel with the amount OF the prize
that each one is entitled to. will be published
alter every drawing, in the following papers
Augusta, (Georgia) Constitutionalist New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta IntelIgen
Ger, New York Weekly Day Book Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New York
III patch. and Paudng (Miss) Clarion.
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