The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-30
S5JO.OOO IN GREENBACkS

Will be distributed by lot 10 the holders o
tickets, in the following Gifts, viz:
ONE GRAND GIFT OF 100000
ONE GRAND GIFT OF $4,000
One Gift
One Gilt 1o'V'
one Gift OF ... 90
One Gift of. 1900
One Gift of IL 90
One Gift Of .,.....,.................. 1900
One Gllt io'oy,
One Gilt ii'Vvt
one Gift of .......,,.,,............. 1900
one Gilt l.,VV,
one Gift H. ~
One Gift of .,,,.,...,.....,..............l 100
One Gilt SiVVN
One Gin of ZOO
One GIN 500
one Gift of. $500
one ain NJ ....., I,UOl
one Gin OF 300
one Gjft 900
Ten Gins OF sluD each...,,.,.,,.....l0 1000
Fifteen Gifts of 500 each................. lSoOC
Eighteen Gifts OF $500 each. liiUt
Twenty GIFTS OF $40 each. ................ HOOC
Twenty-Five Gifts of $500 each.-..---- lou
Thirty Gifts Of 500 each i5UVo
Forty Gins of sINl each ..,,, 1000
Forty.five Gifts of $50 each l3,2Ot
Fifty Gifts OF $40 each lOVVU
4i6 Gifts of 800 4AooO
72l Gifts in ALL.
After paying the expenses OF the enter
prise and making the distribution OF the
Gifts, the balance OF the proceeds arising
from the sale OF tickets will be appropriated
to the establishment OF Free Library IN
Louisville TO be called the
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY.
The Concert and Distribution will take
place under the immediate supervision oil
the Trustees mentioned in the act OF incor-
poration.
known and eminent citizens OF kentucky,
who have consented TO be present at the
Concert and TO superintend the drawing and
distribution OF gifts.
The holders OF tickets TO which gifts are
awarded will be paid on PRESERVATION OF
them or their fraction, AT the Office in Lou
isville, the second day alter drawing
and every business day for six months
thereafter, and may be sent direct or through
any Bank or Express Company, Tor collec-
ton. All orders accompanied by Drafts,
Postoffice Money orders, or Greenbacks,
will be promptly attended 10 and the tickets
returned by mail, registered orexpressed, rs
desired.
Tickets are like Greenbacks-good only
TO the holder.
BUYERS will note that there are only One
Hundred Thousand tickets, instead OF Two
Hundred Thousand, as i'll the san francisco
Gift Concert, and that there Is 800, 900
more distributed. / sold that and made the
awards in four months and paid Sfss,OOu
to ticket holders from November 10 10,
1870, and turned over $4,000 TO the Secre-
tary due tickets not presented,
Ii will be particularly noticed that IL Is
matter OF possibility for any one TO know
what numbers draw gifts, as II Is not known
what the gift of any number drawn from
the first wheel will he, until the scaled box,
with amount of the gilt plainly printed, l.
taken from the other wheel and opened In
full view OF the audience, therefore The larg-
er gift may not come out until towards the
last, or in the middle OF the drawing. The
100000 gift in the San Francisco Git Con-
cert under the management of C.R-PETERs
was the 2UOth number drawn, and was
awarded and paid To gentleman in New
Orleans. ~ quits are all that can be drawn
in one day.
Rn-The Numbers and Gifts are drawn by
blind children from Sto II years OF age.
The drawing will be extensively PUBLISH
ed, and parties ordering tickets Will have
printed lists sent them. Parties forming
Clubs and desiring information Will please
address this office.
II Tick cts for 500; Is Tickets, $3.50
Sc Tickets, $500: lib
Tickets. $1,000.
The undersigned, late principal business
manager OF the very successful Mercantile
Library Gift Concert al San Francisco, Cal,