Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-02-24
To BE DRAWN EAcH SATURDAY N FEBRuARY.
5.4SJ Prizes amounting to...........S"Eo,o
Whole Tickets $50; Halves 50; Quarters ~
PLAN or THE LOTTERY.

5,4SJ Prizes amounting
Whole Tickets $50; Halves 70; Quarters S2''o'
PLAN OF THE LOTTERY.
The Numbers from | 10 $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 revoIved, and a number
is drawn from the wheel OF Numbers, and al the
same time a Prize is drawn from the other
wheel. The Number and Prize drawn out ara
opened and exhibited 10 the audience, and regis
tered by the Commissioners, the Prize being
placeL 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 TO those draw
ing the first 7 Prizes, will be entitled to the 2s
Approximation Prizes.
For example: if Ticket No. 1880 draws the
$4,000 Prize, those Tickets numbered ll24S,
1920, 1881, 1882, will each be entitled 10
4 If Ticket No. $50 draws the $4,000
Prize, those Tickets numbered 54S, SAG 55l,
552, will each be entitled TO $500, and so on &C
cording TO the above scheme.
The 5000 Prizes of $50 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. l, then
all the Tickets where the number ends in | will
be entitled to 500. 1.-THE Number ends with no.
2, then all the Tickets where the Number ends
in 2 will be entitled to 500, and so on TO 0.
Certificates Of Packages will be sold at the
following rates, which is the risk:
Certificates OF Packages, 10 vile. tickets, $50 W
Do do do 10 half do 1000
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 dawn Numbers and Prizes will be
semitic purchasersimmediately after the drawing
II 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.
n" Ali prizes of $1,000 and snder, paid I'M
mediately after the drawing-other prizes al the
usual time otthirty days.
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for tickets or certificates TO
S. SWAN X CO, Augusta. ia.
~ Persons residing near Montgomery, Ala,
or Atlanta. Ga, can have their orders filled, and
save time. by addressing 5. SWAN x CO., al
either of those cities.
IL A 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,) Constituencies, New
Orleans Delta, Mobile Register, Charleston
Standard, Nashville Gazette, Atlanta lateIIlgen'
! Ger, New York Weekly Day Book, Savannah
Morning News, Richmond Dispatch, New York
Dispatch, and Paulding (Miss) Clarion.
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