The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-11-13
THE GRAND
GIFT CON CERT
GIFT MONEY ALL UP!
g g $ 5 0 0 0 O 0 ::
In Bank to Pay Prizes.
A FULL DRAWING IN SIGHT.


THE GRAND GIFT CONCERT, for the
Il benefit OF the Public Library OF Ken
tucky, is postponed to SATURDAY, the 1lh of
December, for TIC following reasons:
/. The failure Of certain agenis to make re-
turns in time for the drawing to take place
September 2S.
3. The accumulation of orders during tho
last few days TO such an extent that it was not
the 2sth
8. The general expressed deeire OF ticket
holders that a full drawing might be had,
oven if it made short postponenlcnt nccos-
Bary.
q. the belief OF tho management that by
short postponement the remnant OF Mnauld
tickets can bD disposed OF, and all the prizes
paid in full, without tho necessity OF any pro
rata scaling down.
For these reasons, coupled with tho carnest
desire TO benefit tho Public Library by larger
balance, and the ticket holders by larger g :ss
tho concert aud distribution have been ,.nst.
poned to Saturday, the 7th of December, 1872.
On that day aud no other the drawing will
positively aud unequivocally come of in the
i:rcat hall of the Public Library building, be-
ginning at precisely o'clock A. NJ, and con
tinue until the whole / 900 gifts are awarded
The payment OF thogfts will begin tho third
day after the drawing, and continue for six
months, in current funds. by the Farmers
AID Drovers' Bsnk, or By si ght draft upon the
Fourth National Bank, Now York, at tho op.
ton of the gift ticket-holders.
List OF Gifts.
One O. and Gift, Cash. 800 COO
/ Cash G 1T s25, 900 Cash Gifis. 50 GOO each
Cash Gift. 20, COO Is Cash Gifts. !, COO Gu ch
Cash Gift. IS COO 20Cash Gifts. 900 each
Cash Gift. 10000 2l Cash Gifts 800 each
Cash Gift. 9,0O0 25 Cash Gifts 7OD each
Cash Gilt. 600 30 Cash Gifts. 600 each
Cash GIFT 900 45 Cash Gifts. 5Oreach
Cash Gilt. G,G00 50 Ch sh Gifts. 400 each
Cash Gift. 5000! CO Cash Gifts. 800 each
Cash Gift. 1000 leo Cash Gifts. 900 each
l Cash Git. 3,0U0 G!2 Cash Gifts. 100 each
Total, coo Gifts, al EGsh. ..... $5u0 600
rl;lCE OF TICKETS.
Whole tickets. SO; halves, s.; quarters.
for $500; 1l3 for $1,000; 225 for s2, 500; SIS for
IS, COO. No discount Oh less tha $1O0 worth
OF tickets ut n timo.
Tho money necessary to pay IN full all the
offered gifts is now upon dcposit in the Farm
ers'tand DroyGrs' Bank, al will be seen By tho
following certificate OF tho Cashier:
FARMERS AND DnovERs' BANK.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Sept. 2G, 1872.
This ia to certify, that there is now on de
posit in his bank over half million OF dol
lars to the credit of the GIFT Concert fund,
$500 900 OF which il held by this bank, az
Treasurer OF the Public Library OF Kentucky
to pay of AL gifts to be awarded at the draw
Hon. JOHN BAREEE, Manager of the Royal
Insurance Company, Liverpool, and Colonel
JILsoN i: JOHNSON, Proprietor Of the Gait
House, will act rs q committee on the part OF
the Trustees to take charge Of the tags be.
for c the drawing, count them, place them in
the Wheel and personally sec that cores
ponding numbers for all tho tickets sold go
into tho wheel. After the drawing is over,
the wheel, with it's contents, will be placed in
the hands of committee on tho part OF tho
ticket holders, to satisfy Themselves whether
all tickets sold were represented in drawiDg.I
Blind children, in full view of tho audience
will alternately draw tho tags from ono Of tho
glass wheels and tho gifLs belonging 10 them
from the other, and tho official record OF the
drawing thus conducted will be kopt by thrco
tellers chosen from different banks in the city.
Tho drawing will DO published in tho Louis.
vile papers and New York Herald. and official
copies mailed to all parties out Of Louisville
The remnants Of tickets yet unsoi,l will be