The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-02-01
In Luck At Last.

coming into our hands in these tight times, is to
us matter of very considerable importance,
and we tender our heartfelt thanks to our bene-
factors for this timely but unexpected aid. How
we were discovered by thi, generous firm we are
unable 10 say, unless they are familiar with the
fact-which ought to be known TO every one
that country editors are always strapped. But
be that as it may, we are glad that these liberal
gentlemen have folnd out our dire necessities,
and have stepped frward SO OPPORTUNITY to
drive poverty from our door.
AS much as we prize the bestowa of this gen.
erous gift of "Grecn Backs" we cannot but ad-
NIT that the air Of disiDterested kindness which
seems to run through the whole letter, together
with the earnest expressions of confidence in us,
over our neighbors, is almost ii not quite as ac-
ceptable to US as our chance for the "amount in
Green Backs by mail"
We are only required to send ten dollars to
pay The managers Of the lotteries for "splendid-
ly arranged package of eighths tickets" which
has already been carefully selected" This is
a small amount it is true, but in consequence
of the habit that people have carelessly fallen
into of sending bills to people who owe them,
about this time of the year, we found it incon-
venicnt 10 send the amount required, and there
fore wrote our donors to deduct ten dollars from
our share of 'GreeE Backs which are to come
''by mall" and send US the balance. After de-
Quoting ten dollars to 'pay the managers" our
share of the 'splendidly arranged package of
eighths tickets" will be one thousand nine hun
bred and ninety dollars, and on the arrival of
"that amount in green backs by mail, ~ we will
give due notice and proceed to "show the mon
ey" to all who may desire 10 make a like invest
ment, hoping, in the mean time, that with
the assurance given below of our early abili-
ty to pay our creditors will be satisfied, and
patiently await the coming of "the amount in
green backs by mall"
Every mans vanity can be aattered more or
less, by circumstances which ordinarily surround
him, but what must be the feelings of him who
finds himself selected as 'discreet and reliable
person,' " WHOM few thousand dollars are
to be sent
The sudden acquisition of wealth has in some
instances had very deleterious effect upon the
mind of the recipient, but we will endeavor to
prevent this unexpected good fortune from upset.
ting our understanding. The following is the
letter of our unknown but charitable friends
OFFICE OF T. J. FURSIss & Co.
LICENSED BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT
New York, December 10th, 1866.
DEAR SIR:-We have come to the conclusion to
increase our business IN your part of the country
by adding to the number of our correspondents,
and feeling convinced that the safest and most
satisfactory plan of doing so IS to send prize of
few thousand dollars to some discreet and re-
liable person, who will have no objection TO show
the money and state the fact to his acquaintan-
ces that the prize money was drawn by a lucky
investment at our Office. We have therefore
selected you as the party more likely than any
one else to aid US in our enterprise and make
you the following liberal and extraordinary
proposition.
Send us $40 TO pay the managers of the lotter-
les for splenoidly arranged package of Eighths
Tickets which we have carefully selected and
labeled, subject TO your order, in the enclosed
Grand Scheme to be drawn on the pan of the
Royal Havana Lottery. And that you may not
suppose that there is amy deception in IT, we in
form you that the prize money does not come out
Of our pockets, but out of that of the Lottery
Managers, and We shall not lose BY sending you
few thousand dollars, but be gamers by the in
you neighborhood, when you shall show the
.'Green Backs" and make it well known that
they are the proceeds Of prize drawn at our
Office. We make this offer to you in strict con-
fidence. The proposal is plain. We are to send
package of tickets for chance to draw few
thousand dollars. You are to show the money
as above stated. The result will be that hun
dreds of dollars will be sent to US for tickets
You may be the gamer ola few thousand dol
Ne hall hp he b,,f 4,
the parties who send for tickes may be gamers
by drawing prizes of different amounts as spec-
fled on the scheme. Every one who sends, will
OF course expect 10 draw prize, not knowing
the offer we made privately to you. And to set
at rest any doubt you may have of our sincerity,
we hereby bind ourselves to forw ard you another
package IN our brilliant Extra Lottery for moth
ing, if the first we send does not draw YOU clear
of all expenses, TWO thousand dollars. We men
tlon this merely to show that it is to our inter-
est to send you prize. Use he enclosed enyel-
ope in sending the $40, and slate whether we
Shall send you n draft on your nearest bank, or
the amount In Green Backs" by mail, which
will perhaps suit you better. Be careful to white
in plain hand, your post Office, county and
State. Wafer or seal your letter 50 that il will
not come open in the mails. Please consider
this letter strictly private and confidential, and
send your order without delay
Very sincerely yours,
7. J. FURNIss & Co.,
No. Cedar St, N. Y.
The official drawing of the above Lotteries will
be sent you as soon as over, and is also publish
cd in the New York Herald and Times.
Office hours from A. NJ, to P. NJ
1t will be seen by the concluding clause of the
above letter, that we are requested to "consider
1t as strictly private and confidential But
overwhelmed as we are with gratitude for this
timely ''stresk of luck" and anxious to extend the
business of our generous friends, and being sat-
isfed that innate modesty alone induced them to
require privacy at our hands, we give publicity
to this noble act of generosity, feeling that it is
no violation of that confidence which should sl-
ways be respected.
LAND SALE.-John S. Dallam, Esq, Real Es-