Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-01-12
TO BE DRAWN EACH SATURDAY IN JANUARY.
5.4Ou Prizes amounting to........... $4,000
Whole Tickets $40 Halves 81; Quarters S2.Jl
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY

5.4Ou Prizes amounting S"2OOuO
Whole Tickets $40, Halves s.; Quarters $3.50
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from to $4,000, corresponding
with those Numbers on the Tickets printed OF
separate slips OF paper, are enclrcled with small
tin tubes, aud placed IN one wheel.
The first 452 Prizes similarly printed and en-
crcIed are placed in another wheel.
The wheels are then reyoved, 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 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 two preceding
and the two succeeding Numbers TO those draw
ing the frst Prizes, will be entitled TO the IS
Approximation Prizes.
For example If Ticket No 1880 draws the
S6O.OO0 Prize those Tickets numbered ll2AS,
Il240, ll25l, 1882, will each be entitled to
S4OO. II Ticket No. $50 draws the $4,000
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54S, SAG. 5jl,
552, will each be entitled to $500, and 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 erds with No. /, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in will
be entitled to $50. lfthe Number ends with no.
2. then all the Tickets where the Number ends
III will be entitled to 500, and so on TO o.
Certificates of Packages will be sold at the
following rates, which is ne risk:
Certificates of Packages, 10 vile tickets, $50 %
Do do do 10 halt do 600
Do do do 10 quarter do 1000
Do do do lOeghth do 1000
IN oRDERISG TICKETS OR CERTIFICATES
Enclose the money 10 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
sent 10 purchasers Immediately after the drawing
u Purchasers will please write their sigma
;ures plain, and give their Post Office, County,
and State.
" Remember that every prize is drawn, and
payable in full without deduction.
IL All prizes of 81 900 and under, paid i'm.
mediately after the drawing-other prizes at the
usual time ofthirty days.
All communications strictly confidential
Address orders for tickets or certificates to
S. SWAN & CO, Augusta, Ga.
y Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta Ga, can nave their orders filled, and
save time, by addressing S. SWAN & CO., at
either OF those cities.
U 4 list of the numbers that are drawn
from the wheel, with the amount of the prize
that each one is entitled To will be published
after every drawing in the following papers
Augusta, Georgia. Constitutionalist, New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta Intelligen-
Ger, New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New York
Dispatch, and PauIding [Miss) Clarion.
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