Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-07

amount of other important information
in our "PUBLIo DIRECTORY column on
the first page of the PUBLIC LEDGER. I
A GRAND SwIYDLE ExPosED.-There is
nothing gives us more pleasure than to
expose swindling operations of any kind,
but especially such thieving ones as this
we are about to "blow up" The follow
ing letter which was sent to one of our
sharpest and most business-like men,
William E. Dill, the popular and gentle
manly agent of the Memphis and st.
Louis Packet Company, explains itself.
The letter has a magnificent steel en-
craving at its head describing the quail
fications of the firm, and is calculated to
take in many who are not up to snuff;
OFFICE OF FLETCHER Il Co.,
NEW YORK, February %, leG6.
DEAR SIR: As We are DESTROYS to send
a good prize in your neighborhood and
with this resolution we have been looking
around for an opening in which, by pre-
senting some discreet and reliable person
with a prize of few hundred dollars, it
would have the desired effect to increase
the number of cur customers. We acci-
dentally met with your address, and the
idea occurred to US at once that you
were Just the person to aid us in our
enterprise. We therefore make you
proposition which must strike you as
being no less novel than it is liberal; and
that you may not suppose that there Is
any deception in it, we inform you that
the prize money does not come out of our
pockets, but out of the iotteru managers;
and shall not lose by sending few hun
dred dollars in prize money, but shall
gain by it in the increased amount of
business we shall expect from your neigh
borhood, when you show the green
backs" and make it generally known
that they are the proceeds of a prize
drawn at our office. We make this offer
to you in strict conference.-the proposal
is plain. We are to send certificate for
a chance 10 draw few hundred dollars
you are to shoio the money. The re-
suit will be that hundreds of dollars will
be sent to us for tickets You may be
the gamer of few hundred dollars-we
shall be gamers by our sales, and the
parties who send for tickets may be
gamers by drawing prizes, Every one
that sends will of course expect to draw
a prize. not knowing the offer we made
privately TO you, which is as follows:
Send US ten dollars 10 pay the managers
and we will send you, securely sealed, a
certificate ofpackage of sixteenth tickets
in the enclosed scheme; and 20 set at rest
any doubt you may have OF our sincerity,
we hereby bind ourselves to send to you
a second certificate in one of our Brilliant
Extra Lotteries for nothing if the first
we send does not draw you, clear OF all
expense, fifteen hundred. And mark
this fact-to send you Sl5Oo out OF the
managers pockets will cost us nothing.
We mention this merely to show you
that it is to our interest to send you a
prize. We enclose an envelope with our
address Send us ten dollars, and state
in your letter whether we shall send you
draft on your nearest bank, or shall we
send you the amount in greenbacks
by mail, which last perhaps will suit you
better. Please send your order by re-
turn mail, as we shall have to order your
certificate from the managers.
Yours sincerely,
FLETCHER & Co.
The official drawing will be forwarded
to all who order from us, ....,
Mr. Dill, in reply, enclosed a railroad
resembling a greenback,
with the figure "40'' on each end stating |
that fifteen hundred dollars would not be
enough for breakfast in this part ofthe |
country, and consequently he would in
vest forty dollars instead Of ten. Hegot |
several of his friends TO follow his |
thereby opening out a good |
spec" for Fletcher & Co., New York,
The idea of sending letter Of this kind
to Mr.. Dill is certainly good Take Din
for ridicule and he can beat the world,
and if he don't have his fun out Of the
operation tbs because thereis none init
Go TO McDonald's, 2sl Second street,
for paints. " 80 I-EE.tf /
Communicated
Editors Public Ledger: / have read
your paper for months. | see your dis
position to build up morality. Would to
God we had dozen more editors, who
would give some attention TO this very
important and desirable element for the
good of cur rising generation here in
bur midst fiE rn.E ttt
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