Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-01-14

(played tomorrow.
The drawings de held pubEc,yii the court d
the treasury building; and srs superintendea BY
several officers of the government ina large
globe (haying q; sliding door big enough to submit
q mans army are placed 2a0O0 bits Of iEou Of The
sine Of a,dime, having on them the eossseatise
|numbess from one to 26,000. In saBa1w siobe
are placed similar bits of ivory having on4hem
the yssiegs., prizes. from $lQo, 900 dam, After
the globes have been revolyed and the bits of ivory
well shaken, two small boys from the orphan asy-
.lum) perform the drawing. One boy inserts bis
hand into the large globe and takes out number
which he exhibits to the inspectors and then calls
out. Atths sane time the other boy draws from
the other globe prize which be also exhibits to
the inspectors and calls out A man who stands
in readiness writes on q. blackboard placed 10 view
Of the spectators, each number and prize as they
are called. And 30 the drawing Is continued nm
til all the prizes are drawn from the smaller globe.
To phyaiognomist it Affords no little amusement
to watch the crowd of eager expectants and THE
boys themselves so mechanically and indiHerentH
draw and call out numbers and prizes ip their shF
tenor. Tres NIL doc cieatos p,aateocho pipes one
Caatro centos pesoss responds the othes; and in.
stanty on the blackboard Is written No, 3228-
$400-and so on, to the end. ..,,,....
I have never heard any fraud charged, and do
not think that any. exists in the management pf
the Lottery. The best evidence Of this p that the
large prizes often fall to persons who could not,
by any possibility, be in collusien With the MANS
gers and the fact that government officials mH-
chants and Others, who would soon detect fraud i
there were any, constantly buy the tickets =.
I have heard some curious incidents related of
the lottery. A commercial house Of this city had
subscribed for several years for whole ticket Of
certain number. At length they became involved,
and having to pay suddenly about $50. 200, were
unable to command the amount, The day before
the drawing the ticket seller went as usual to their
counting room with the ticket. One Of the part
ners told him to go and sen i to some one else
that they would not take itfonger. He did so;
and the next morning that ticket drew $10o, 600,
and the house failed
A man boughta whole ticket. which he kept for
several days; but the day before the drawing he
met the man who had sold It to him and requested
him to give him another for It, as be did not ncy
the number. The vender exchanged with him,
and the first ticket drew 100000. 'T'3';
A gentleman of my acquaintance bought whole
ticket, which he carried in his pocket-book for
several days, and then exchanged three-fourths of
it with some of his friends for other numbers -
That ticket drew 100000.
Many strange stories are told Of people dream
ing Of certain numbers, and thereby gaining pises
I have known many persons TO dream that ceEtain
numbers drew prizes, but the dreams never came
true. e. = aiE eie-sEs
The net amount derived last year from this
source was $2,739, ,2Ss; on the whole, the ,nttery
may be regarded as one Of the worst rneans of rails
ing revenue. The tendency Is demoraliIns, and
is particularly injuFonSto to the negroes, Chinese,
and other poor people: By an easy calculstion it
will be found that the holderof ticket, or fisc-
ton of one, has but one chance in thrty-fve OF
gaining anything. It is true that by this means
a few are made independent, bat many peor per
sons spend al their earnings in vain, and are kept
in penury by paying constantly for the bare posi-
bility Of gaining fortunes %! = 80, :'t'
The existence of the lottery is no doube, one
great cause of the squshd poverty 50 common IN
Havana. 71ii e. -. y 2, .-lIs ~ ~ =
SIGNIFICANT NAxEs.-The '.maapet' has IL
name from Magneia. The s''bsyonet" ta1s MS
that it was FIRST made :at Rayonne "worsted
that il was first spun at village of the same name
in the vicinity Of Norwich ''cambrics that they
reached us from Cambrao 'damasks" from Da-
mascus; the aDamson'' also the '.Damascene'
plum from Damascus; "dimity' from Damietta !;
"cordwain" or 'cordovan" from Cordcya; "cur,
rant" Corinth; "iudigo' (indicum ffom India;
"agates'' from Sicilian river, Achatss; 'jjaiap
from Jalappa, town in MexicoSS ardrchmsutr e
from Pergamum; the 'guines tint Il txss oigi-
nally coined lin the year 1851 of gold brodzht
from the African coast 30 csied csi1let tint &
was woven in part, ofcamePs hair. Tie fashion
Of the cravst was borrowed frgm tie gfosts or
ttCrnbats haa ther ,faed II, the ssxteenfh nps,try