The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-01-28

ness.
The usual annual contracts between land
holders and laborers have been closed and the
work Of the year has begun. Mr.. Jones
says, however, that the Mississippi State
government and the Louisiana Returning
Board are enough To insure the failure Of a
fruit crop, and, he fears, of all crops during
the present year. Nature is sympathizing
with the untoward state Of affairs, we know,
and we fear the results
Last Saturday, at our singing society, one
of our young men attempted to get up a
club to purchase tickets in the Louisville
Lottery. and was getting along pretty well,
until he asked Mrs. Cornelia to take share
That ended the matter. Mrs. Cornelia spoke
to the young people as follows:
Elm this Lottery there are five prizes of
considerable size; then there are nine hum
dred and ninety-five of inconsiderable size;
then there are nineteen thousand prizes
simply the amount of your tickets.
Every simpleton who buys a ticket, ex-
poets to draw nothing less than the largest
prize To do this, he must overcome ninety
nine thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine chances against him; and to illustrate
the probability of the thing, / will request
some young friend to cut some letter-paper
into one hundred equal pieces; and, with a
lead pencil, make any character on the back
of one of the pieces 80 il can be known.
4tOH 1T dAAOShCA gOAhS RANIdlG OHG
hundred similar pieces Of paper; and ON one
of them, write 100000 Place the one
hundred pieces of paper, first prepared, in
one hat; and place the other lot in a sepa-
rate hat; mix the papers in each hat well,
and cover each with handkerchief Now
let two of the girls draw them out. Mary
can draw one from this hat, and Susan one
from that. When Mary draws out her slip
ofpaper with the character ON it, in order to
get the 800, 900 prize, Susan should, at the
same time, draw the slip out of her hat,
marked 100000"
The slips were prepared as directed, and
after drawing an hour, the two marked slips
were not drawn out at the same time; and
every one was convinced that such coinci-
dence would hardly occur if the drawing
was continued for twenty -four hours. Where
upon Mrs Cornelia resumed
In the drawing at Louisville there will
be two wheels. In one there will be placed
the 900 considerable prizes. In the other
will be placed one hundred thousand tickets,
The probabilities, William, that your ticket
and the capital prize will be drawn simulta-
neously, are precisely the same as the prob
abilities are that the two marked slips, III
these two hats, can be drawn simultaneous
ly; for III each cast, there is a hundred against
one.
''This illustration is based upon the sup
position that the lottery is conducted
fairly, which we will not dispute"
| here interrupted Mrs. Cornelia, and
asked her if persons never drew prizes in lot
teries. She replied, "Oh yes, but very sell
DOM 1t is very rare that tightening ever
strikes and kills man-yet such a thing
does occur occasionally. Perhaps we would
be safe in saying, that for every man killed
by tightening, there is a prize drawn in a lot
terry, we read of both in the papers, but few
of us witness either" Mrs. Cornelia then
proceeded TO show the demoralizing effect of
buying lottery tickets; and 50 painfully
mind, operated upon by hope with no frui-
ton, that every one present abandoned all
idea of investing.
1 write you this, gentlemen, because of
the great number of gift concerts, which are
now advertised in the papers, and because
of the disposition of our people, especially
our young people, to invest their small saw
ings, vainly hoping and idly dreaming of
sudden fall of fortune, barely more probable
than the appearance of a first-class miracle.
Notwithstanding, the above demonstration
n-the lottery question, suppose some folks
ii buy tickets.
You doubtless wish to hear of all new in
ventions. Our distinguished friend Barney
5. Trice, Esq, has discovered or invented
a method to cure stammering or suffering.
There is no mistake about his giving relief;
and we advise all parties who stammer to add
dress him at Verona, Miss.
1t is painful for me to announce the death
ofmy friend, DR.. j. J. shelton, of Macon,
Miss. The Doctor combined in his charac-
ter all the elements of manhood, and exhibit
ted in his daily life the graces of scholar
ship and an Astounding love of his fellow
man. He was an old STYLE tide water,
Virginia gentleman, a descendant of the cav
alters and noble specimen of what we used
10 proudly call Southron.
The difficulty about Bro.David Johnson's
fish trap, it is now thought, viii disappear.
WILLIAM
p. S. The taxpayers memorial has reach
ed us, and Mr.. Jones says when he heard me
read it aloud, it seemed like he was listen
ing to some good old song. The old man
cried. The address is universally appro we'd