Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-12

have cheap sewing machines, medical nos
trums. or other rubbish, and the majority
are not to be found at the addresses gwen.
LOTTERIES AND GIFT ENTERPRISES.
Certain newspaper enterprises offer to
send 500 bills in occasional copies of pa
pers. One firm writes to lottery ticket
holders that they have drawn prizes, which
will be forwarded ON their sending the
usual cash assessment of five per cent
These prizes prove to be shares IN worth
less petroleum or mining companies.
Another firm offers to sell unclaimed lot
terry prizes for a per centage. A Broad
way Publishing Company" offers for 81 q
book and a prize of not less value than So,
with a good chance of gvtting 81, 900. The
firm are only to be found by letter A man
in Cincinnati promises for 50 to give
horses. carriages, pianos, melodeons, plate
money. and jewelry, with the least possible
risk of not drawing prize. Another MN
advertise "a sewing machine on Broad
way, but are not to be found there.
iCounsellors at law propose to forward
the sends of justice" by collecting from the
proprietors of gift enterprises the prizes
Justly due to ticket holders which have
been withheld. A preliminary remittance
of two dollars is required. No one Is to be
William street pretends to issue q monthly
paper for the dissemination of universal
knowledge.
The Havana lottery has a good character
for fair drawing, and there are several
swiudlers who profess to sell its tickets.
Circulars issued by five firms are IN the
hands of the postoffice detectives. All
these companies and confidential clrcu-
lars to some especial individual III place,
offering for remittance of twenty dollars
to send him prize of $500, more or less,
which he is to display in his neighborhood,
and thus induce others to buy tickets.
Their loss of $3.50, they explain, viii be
more than compensated by the commissions
on tickets they may sell. These men flrsi
ascertain the character of the person to
whom they send circulars, and are often
successful in inducing him into deceiving
his neighbors with the hope of obtaining
the $500 offered.
A man writes to different individuals, in
a private and confidential way, offering to
swindle lottery managers In certain man.
ner, and procure prize for those he writes
to, on remittance being sent to him III
advance This ''dodge" is often practiced,
and as the ''gull' is also an accomplice, he
dare not have resource to the law.
The more miscellaneous circulars OF some
of these men are very comprehensive. One
concern issues a small paper composed en-
tirely of its own advertisements. 1t has
first purchasing agency, which Will buy
anything on commission, from house to a
piece of soap; 'Cardplayer's Advantage
Manual, or How Gamblers Win :" ''WiZ-
Yards Cards, with inrtsuctions y " Nous
taches, on wire or lace !" ''Some very curl
Gus Books :" seThe Arts of Beauty, by Lola
Montez - New and Startling Books y
''Three Merry Men p Faro Boxes )" "Ad-
vantage Cards." which can be read as well
from the back as the face Turkish Sachel
Perfumes - 'sVelvet Rouge !" Surprise
Cards !" French Mechanical Figures y
Genuine Transformation Pictures )" Mag
ic Trick Cards !" 1.-The Library of Love !;
Microscopic Emporium = - Fun and Frol-
ic, or photographs that would Make a
Horse Laugh"
THE LATEST swINDLE.
The latest trick for raising money noted
by the postofice detectives is this: A letter
in a delicate female hand is headed my
lord" giveing reason to suppose that tits in
tended for nobleman in England, and has
been accidentally addressed to the wrong
person. This letter is sent to numerous
men in different cities, whose names have
been obtained. 1t contains upbraidings OF
the nobleman for having abused the
writer's girlish confidence, and announces
that now her soul has outgrovn her former
weak affection, and risen above it. She
has now become entirely Indifferent to
him. Though lost and betrayed, she still
preserves her self-respect and will live
down the past. All she asks is little
money for temporary use, until her affairs
become settled, when she will address him
no more. She processes herself willing to
accept the five thousand pounds sterling
offered by her guardian as a compromise
for what is due.
The first impulse of many persons on re-
ceiving the letter is to write to the young
woman, asking her to come from her resi-
dence in Canada. Some have matrimonial
designs for the sake of her money, while
others think that she will be desirable
acquaintance They offer, of course, to
send money for her passage. The offer is
accepted and the money sent.
The lovely and lost creature is big,
grizzly bearded fellow of fifty, who has
found his scheme very profitable. He some
times varies it by writing to his dupes, also
in the name of a young lady, that she has
met IN Washington, "a gentleman from
your state ana your name. Sne states tnat
if he is the gentleman alluded to he no doubt
recalls the attentions he paid her. She pro-
ceeds TO state that, accompanying her be-
loved father to Paris, she was left alone in
that gay capital, thoughtless, giddy girl.
She mouTns the past in affecting terms, and
begs the gentleman to send for her, and she
will be his willing slave" Her poverty
is complete, and she will need remittance
for passage money from st. Adams, Ver-
mont.
GIFT JEwELRY SwINDLERS.
There is one class of swindlers, however,
whose business ought to be broken up at
once Some of the gift jewelry shops
which occupy easements on many of our
business streets are owned by gamblers and
sharpers. 1t is q disgrace to the city that
these places are allowed to continue their
dishonest business.
A REMARKABLE SIGHT-For some time
past, through the agency of the mirage
pronounced mirazh), the other shore of
Lake Michigan, some So miles away, has
been distinctly seen. Last Sunday about
noon We were ON the bank of the lake
wishing that we might see something of