Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-16
TO RE DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN .TrNE
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
5,4S5 Prizes amounting to. ...... $4,000

54S5 Prizes amounting TO. ......-.. .S5ZD,OOO
Whole Tickets $40; Halves 50; Quarters IL So
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from 10 10000, corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on
separate slips OF paper, are enClrced with small
tin tubes, and placed i'll one wheel.
The first 457 Prizes similarly printed and en-
circled, are placed III another wheel.
The wheels are then reyoved. and number
is drawn from the wheel OF Numbers, and al the
same time Prize is drawn trOm 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 PEIzEs.-The two preceding
and the two succeeding Numbers to those draw
ing the first Prizes will be entitled to the rs
Approximation Prizes.
For example: if Ticket No 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize, those Tickets numbered ll24S,
1920, 1921, 1882, will each be entitled TO
$500. If Ticket No. $50 draws the 10000
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54S, 54G. 55l,
$50, will each be entitled to $500, and so on ac-
! cording 10 the above scheme
| The 5000 Prizes of 500 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 erds with No. /, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in | will
be entitled TO $50. 1.-THE Number ends with no.
| 2, then all the Tickets where the Number ends
| in will be entitled TO $50, and so on TO ..
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 600
Do do do 10 quarter do 1000
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 have Tickets ending in any
| figure they may designate.
The list of drawn Numbers and Prizes will be
semitic purchasersimmediately after the drawing.
IL Purchasers will please write their sigma
| lures plain, and give their Post Office, County,
| and State.
IL Remember thatevery prize is drawn, and
| payable in full without deduction.
e All prizes of 81 900 and under, paid i'm
| mediately after the drawing-other prizes at the
usual time olthiTty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates to
S. SWAN & CO, Augusta, Ga.
II Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta, Ga, can have their orders filled, and
save time, by addressing S. SWAN 4 CO., at
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) Constituencies, New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta lntelIigen-
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