Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-05
COMMUNICATIONS.

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 And scoopsd the ring in, which was pleasant.
 COMMUNICATIONS.
 The Modern LOttery-Alleged HmpOssie
 bility of the Drawings as Published.
 To the Editor ofthe JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 read some days ago the address signed by Gems. Early and Beauregard averring that the lottery with which they are connected was honestly drawn, and that everything was fair ly conducted as regards the ticket holders. These gentlemen may believe what they say, but the published numbers of the drawings
 drawing" is a fraud upon the dupes who put their money into the sup
 posititious sswheel of fortune" I have run over the last published drawing of the lottery referred to, that of Dec. 16th, and some of your readers versed in the 'tscience of num-
 bers" may be interested in the result. have taken the pains to count the number of prizes drawn in each thousand tickets, and it
 Is remarkable how evenly they are dis tributed through the whole 100000. The highest number of prizes in any one thousand was 20 and the lowest 3, while the average was 9.65. Now it seems to me to the
 last degree improbable that numbers actually
 drawn by chance would come out in this way
 more than once in 8 million times. If pair
 of clerks, however, were given 100, 900 tick
 cts, in packages of 1000, and required to
 make up the list of prizes, it would
 be natural for them to select few from each and every package. The lottery drawing here
 analysed is not the only one to which these re-
 marks apply. Every published lottery draw ing is arranged in the same way. Are the
 prizes so evenly distributed to the end that every ticket-holder shall come so near one of
 them as to be encouraged to try his luck again ANTI-HUMBUG. 
 Hamden's Highways-A Letter From James Ives.
 To the Editor Qf the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 writer in one of the New Haven papers
 Friday says: "By what process of reason ing MT. Ives enables himself to say that he is not the actual originator Of the injunction we
 don't know" It is enough to say in reply that some people are so in the habit of speak ing the truth that they don't stop to go through ''process of reasoning" It is said 'sMr. l. complains that the voters and taxpay- CTS were deceived and misled as to the pre- else action contemplated at the meeting" Is this not strictly true? Does the petition or the call for the meeting, which the writer is kind enough to quote, say word about the appropriation of money at that meeting? It is said, ''Mr. I. was called upon, and told ex- actly what was to be done." Did the writer know himself, or does he know now, exactly i what is to be done with our railroad accom- modations? If he will tell, many would like l to know. Andhe says ''Mr. l. expressed him. self in favor of the project" What project The writer knows that it was to get the rail l road out of the highways, with the mar | velous expectation that the company
 would have some regard to it's pa 1 irons in relocation and not forget their charter obligations to aid the towns through | which they pass. It is said ''Mr. I. com plains that the amount of tax was not repre- sented properly" Is not this true to the
 letter and figure Did not the speaker rep
 resent that $15, ,000 'paid at the rate of $1 ,O00
 year would not be felt" and not 8 word about the interest, which makes the first pay
 ment $1 300, the second $1, $40, and so on, | till it amounts to the important sum of nearly | 1928, ,0O0? And the writer says MT. I appears
 as the champion of Centerville-a locality in | which Che does not reside!" We'll there are
 some sspeculiar people, in the town of Hamden
 who do favor the interests of portions of their native town where they 'Edo not reside"-and | who, when they find their neighbors robbed | and wounded, will not ''pass by on the other l side" and great many who when they find | their neighbors ''half dead" in the hands of
 robbers will not try to aid the robbers. We'll. your writer has found by the books of the l railroad company that only two passengers a l day travel from Oenterville on the cars-but | they prefer to go through the slush and mud | in a slow and dwindling stage. He has also shown that Oenterville has got passengers to support 1.-two stage lines three and four trips 8 day"-which some neighboring railroads would stop for to help swell their dividend. | This fact ought of itself to describe the rail
 road accommodations. But let us have the facts as they are. The good people of Cen l terville were once led astray to sign petition which chafed the sensibilities of their neigh | bors at Mt. Carmel, butthey ''came back shorn." They were told at the meeting of Railroad Commissioners of the beautiful rooms and l seats in new depot" The railroad compa- ny accomplished their job. The people while waiting for their accommodations, saw one
 Sunday hut say 12x12, approaching on a
 handcar. It didn't stop where they expected | depot but to the credit of the taste of the | railroad company it went to a point out of sight of their church and village, and there it | stands target for boys who show their smart ness in hitting so small an object.
 Now, if the writer has not very badly ex- posed our ''many misstatements," his ink is | not lost, nor the large bundle of papers | which he scattered. He has advertised | his stage line, which we hear he
 wants to sell, and expects booming"
 with the removal of our railroad facilities. And no doubt but for his modesty he would | like to say what we will volunteer to say, that
 he is our towns representative at the coming Legislature, to whom-by the town vote l jointly with our disinterested selectmen and
 the liberal railroad company, our people and | their successors are expected to look for their l railroad accommodations for all coming time. Now, begging pardon for this much, allow | us to say that at our town meeting next Mon | day we wish to rescind the former vote, for
 the purpose of appointing competent com
 mittee to negotiate with the railroad compa- ny, if possible, for safe, economical and convenient removal of their road out of our | highways. We notice that questions of much l less importance are deliberated upon by your city officers for many weeks at numerous meetings. Can our town afford to do other
 wise ? And dare any man attempt to push through another vote without giving our peo- ple time to deliberate? JAMES IyEs