Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-11-07
The Wlnners.

4 4lAOOAOAS sNA a
ager of the branch house Of Seligman,
Hellman & Co., New Orleans, $780,
600; Howell W. Thomas, Of French
Corral, Nevady County, CAL, a WEIGH
man who can neither read nor write
the English language, $4,000; Mrs.
Martha J.. Wilkinson, of White Rock
Springs, Sacramento county, sc,
II. II. Lay, farmer, of Batavia, Solano
county, $40, 900; Martin e. Glover, a
workman in a gold refinery in this
city, $3.50 less one coupon which he
gave to a lady friend; August Wilmer,
a laborer in the Glass Works, and J.
w. Webster, money broker, both Of
San Francisco, each q coupon in the
81, 900 prize ; the $4,000 ticket is
held In Chicago ; Il. II. FULLY, Cashier
of the Nevada County Bank, $l2, 900;
q portion Of the $40, 900 prize Is In dis
pute, and in Injunction has been served
to prevent its payment; Charles H.
Thesis. saloon keeper, X street, Sacra-
mento, $4,000; six persons join In the
$4,000 prize. all residing IN Sacra-
mento; the Pacific Club, Of this city.
$15, 900; A.. Blanchard, barber of
Kearny street, $1,000; the $25, 900 and
$1,000 prizes have not yet been
claimed.
The citizens of M~arysville invested
$40, 900 in the lottery, and only drew
one coupon in a 800 prize /; Nevada
county carries off about $4,000; the
Pacific Club held 2, 00O tickets and only
drew one prize, but that left them
about 5000 winners ; McComb's pools
of 200 tickets, paid the investors from
ten to fifty cents each; Van Sbaak's
200 tickets, one share In which was
presented to the purchaser Of each suit
Of clothes, paid a dividend Of ten cents;
John Mccullough, J.. w. Raymond
and II. w. Corbyn-all well-known
actors-drew 800 each; Mrs. Dan
Bryant also wins $4,000.
The Chinese
had invested quite largely in the pro-
ject, and OH the day Of the drawing
numbers of them might have been seen
in front of the newspaper offices, COM
pairing their lists OF tickets with the
lucky numbers. The 10000 prize Is
believed to have fallen to n Chinaman,
and also several smaller sums.
The Freaks Or Figures.
Not a single ticket In the 18th, SD,
Doth, 18th, lGSth, and 10th thousands
was drawn from the wheel. Tickets
numbered 1872 thousand odd, and lS0
thousand odd, drew the largest number
Of prizes Of any OF the tllousands-ten
each-but they were all for small
amounts. The numbers above one
hundred thousand drew nearly two
thirds of the large prizes and a major
ity of the smaller sums, altogether
33S, while tickets below that figure
only drew 900 Winning numbers.
Was the Drawing FART
With the exception Of the inyeter-
atcly suspicious-thc men who will
want IN assay Of Heavens sidewalks
before they will be convinced that they
are of pure gold-there is not a single
person who really believes but that the
drawing was conducted with scrupu-
lous honesty and exact fairness. This
il one great redeeming feature in the
concern. The managers kept implicit
faith with the public, and very few In
deed have the shame to hint that they
did not. Messrs. Dore and Peters
must stand higher than ever In the es-
| tinlation of all honest men.
The LeRt Homestead
Barnac!ed itself to the big lottery so
clcverly that it was drawn through
with the greatest ease. Captain Rob
erts took one-half of the unsold tick
cts from Lent, the owner Of the house
or rattle, and one of these happening
to be of the same number as the win
ming ticket Of the first prize In the
Mercantile Lottery, the property re-
verts jointly to that gentleman and its
original proprietor.
The Next Tive Gift Concerts
Will take place In the California The
alter, the management of TINT place
hqving, | am informed, purchased the
rights from the Library Association.
The prize IN each instance will be a
grand piano, and the tickets will DO
limited to about 1000, at 81 each.
Eject on Business.
One million dollars cannot be taken
from such n comparatively small pop
ulation rs there Is OH the Pacific Coast
without somewhat affecting general
trade, and, as a consequence that, to-
gether with the wholly unexpected ex-
citement caused by the event, has seri-
ously damaged every branch of bust
ness. Hundreds Of country merchants
held back their orders until after the
drawing, rightly thinking that II they
won q large prize 1t would not be nee
essary to Continue bookkeeping. Our
business men are sincerely glad that
the affair Is over, and will s%trenlously
oppose any further schemes Of n similar
character.
The Expense Of tho Lottery.
The Mercantile Library only just
clears of its mortgages by the lottery.
The expenses Of the affair were largely
increased by Its postponemcnt, and
will aggregate about 800, COG.
JACK HoRNER.