The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-12-21

writer in these words, cit IS maintained by
those people that there are lucky days and
numbers and if one can only contriye to
be born on a lucky day and then also con-
tinue to ges a lucky number in the lottery,
"why he need MT work for living only
let him 90 in and win," etc. Out Of this
lucky class Ben. Wood has made his for
tune. With reference to lucky numbers
| am unfortunately so poorly informed
that | cannot speak accurately, but Ben.
Wood can and so can all his agents. There
is prize to be drawn, and they know that
the man that draws it must strike boldly
and not faint. "You drew blank you
did," said one Of these agents TO disap-
pointed youth who came to inquire, "I
knew you would. Yon hav MT cheek e.
nough to bring luck toward you. Try a
gain and go in strong and you may fetch
it next time" Yes, that is the rule try
again. Just listen to the gospel Of this
fellow "If you have had run of bad
luck why just keep on, for it's a rule that
luck must turn. Only keep on, for you
may stop just the very minute before the
turn comes. There's fellow that lost
steady for two years, but he knew the
thing must change after a while, and so he
drove right along till the luck changed
and he drew 100000" Good doctrine
that, at least for Ben. Wood, and to il
lustrate its practical effect | may refer to
the defaulting teller of the Fulton bank
in this city who few years ago was sent
to state prison for robbing the bank. This
man confessed that he had for the space
of one year expended hundred dollars
per day in lottery tickets. Pretty well
for Ben. Wood, but who is to blame 2
Perhaps if the young man had only bought
one more,ticket he would have drawn that
100000 prize for which he subsequent
ly but vainly served four years in Sing
Sing. Among this class who lucky num-
bers are clerks and even business men,
while women Of the town are largely ad-
dicted to lottery excitements. The color
ed people of this city are notorious for the
same vice. Indeed it seems almost uni
versal among them, Notwithstanding the
pulpit objurgations of their preachers !
well remember hearing a colored Boaner-
ges denounce playing policy" as it is
commonly called, | presume that the
profits made out of the colored devotees
Of the policy business in this city are sui-
fcient to afford Ben. Wood handsome
income, and he certainly should remember
this when joining in the cry against "the
niger" Perhaps if it were not for the
nigger the honorable Benjamin might be
obliged to work for his bread
WHAT ABOUT LUCKY NUMBERS.
| am told for | cannot speak from ex-
perienoe, that to dream Of a number three
! times entities it to be called lucky Three
five and seven are lucky numbers, and i
you buy them your chance is good ,mlee
more lucky person than yourself be ;
: ticket holder, in which case his luck may
| be so trong that there is no going against
! it. know man who is well satisfied
what are lucky numbers, and the only rea
E son why he has never drawn q pIi4. l. Re
= cause some person who was "born to goot
luck" carried off in spite of the lucky mum
: Der. There is no sight when any Of these
( fellows are round, and on that accoun
men must keep on trying the lucky mum
7 bers. One of these days there will no
b. be such born lucky man in the list, ant
7 then the lucky number is bound to ietcl
t the prize, chit or miss In the polio,
r shops the drawings for the year are care
: fully displayed and are continually stud
) led by the fortune-hunting crowed in orde
}, to learn what are lucky numbers. hay
= referred to three, five, seven, &c, bu
r these, though lucky, may be made sti
), more so by lucky combinations, say
e 334,077, 335,077, 3,355,707, &c. WIZ
j can tell which of these three contains jus
e the right arithmetic to enchain that mel
a curial something, which We call luck
l.. One may see men, women, and even child
= rem studying these lists with anxious gazC
IS and even trying to read each others face
It or catch the figures which they are per
Cling with nervous hand. There al
washerwomen taking shares worth fiy
l. cents each, and even children are accom
n odated with chances at one cent plec'
d From this juvenile rate the tickets rang
n up to FIVE dollars and even fifty dollars.
ID DRAWINGS.
: These take place twice day--noon an
lie evening that is, they are reported by tie
1t egraph from the offices, which of cour.
'e is located out Of this state. Out Of ever
u batch of seventy FIVE tickets or chance
y thirteen petty prizes are drawn. The
re is slang or "patter" peculiar TO this traC
e. and one hears at the shops such terms ;
y 'gigs saddles, horses, cross gigs. wor,
lg which refer to the different chances. I'll
r headquarters of the business are in Il
ie Bowery, and at 294 Murray & Co., "a
RS supposed to represent the ex-Congres
m man-editor and honorable Benjamin Woo
lie ESQ, etc He employs about forty clerk
IS, of whom two or three are visible at
xt time, the rest being concealed by scree
m AS this business is by statute criminal e
er, cry precaution is used to conceal the ma
is ayers No one can answer any questio
lie except that "he is a clerk" He does Il
" know who pays him, inasmuch as |
nd weekly stipend is sent him in an enyeloI
re He obeys a superior clerk himself, but
MS cannot tell his employer. Some one h
n requested him by letter or through an
Ia gent to go to the place and do duty, a
nd so he is there. All Ben the Congre
Sc man knows how to eyade laws as well
IN to make laws, and there in his den
les moves the puppets called Murray & c
safe from all danger Of legal interf
ence.
he Not far from Murray q Co., is the
er. fee of Mcintyre & Co., and besides tn
Ire are also Simmons q Co., and Sturges
lar Co., but these latter are small compai
ms, with the patriotic Benjamin. We may
me least thus conclude from the fact Il
be- Murray & Co. received during two mon
oc- august and September) nearly s4OO,O o.
is, Now supposing that the other three G