The Penn's Grove record., 1893-03-17

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The Louisiana lottery being legal zed
tickets are openly d splayed in tie shoI
wtrd, VS.. and are sold on the sidewalks
hy men. women and children. One
tie for ~ 81 G of these tickets beals
.nch a leg. nd as IL Is On It's sigu: 1his
il Iucky Number Eleven. More win
ripg tickets sold here than any where
sl,e in town.
There was a drawing while | was IL
the clty. and knowing that the lottery
con pany was not 10 ask Tor a rene"ai OF
It's rIiyileges, | ayall,d myself OF the
ouuortuulty TO witness Its CHIEF puDiic
oprralion ard the li,tOIic characters
via have been Induced BY la'ge salaries
1, gpue for IT. The drawing took
Mace i'm A the { e called the Academy
If Music a. eleven O'Clock IN the
morn. ng. The yellow gas-jets ba'tled
l-eLIy with The daylight in the lobby
into WHICH the people were pressing
without let OF qualification. The thea
ne WAS Lwo.tblrds full at last. On the
Jage. sci with a psrlor scene, was a
KNIT Of men between two wheels. The
wheel on the night WAS q band OF silver,
with sides Of glass aud with a door In
,be metal rim. A buShel OF little Dlack
Kutia- percha envelopes the size OF dom
noes lad been poured into this wheel,
and a white boy, blindfolded with a
handkerchief, stood at the handle OF
Inc crank by which the wheel was
urpeI. He had one arm In the door OF
HE wheel, and with the hand OF the
other arm Was Offering a tiny envelope
% Gen. BeauIegard-the last surviving
General who ser we'd on either side In
lur late war. A fine most gentlenanly-
oklDg man he Is, with the features OF
4 French conrtieI, with snowy HAIR, q
white mOustache, a little goatee, n
he pipR est sk a baby eyer knew. He
was faul'lessly die sed. Across the
stage. beside Il yeIy much larger wheel or
DsTtI. coloIed boards, Sat MsjOr-General
Jubal A. Early-a perfect type of the
conventional figure of Father Time,
.all, pOrtly, stoop-shouldered, partly
oald, and With a long, heavy, white
Jeald. lie was dressed all In the colEr
# tie uniform he distinguished by his
Talor as a soldier.
By each general stood a blindfOlded
10Y, taking numbers out OF the wheels,
and handing them to the generals.
From the big wheel to Major-GeDeral
Early came the numbers OF the tickets;
RI m the little wheel to General
Beauregard came the numbers OF dol
airs that formed tile prize each ticket
had Won. BY each general stood q
,rler. Early read out, "'Twenty.one
thousand che hundred AMI f1fty-two;"
And BeauregarG. having 81 elied Tie
gutta -percha case Oft a billet, read OUT,
Two hunded dollars" Then the
.rieIs took the Dlllets aud cried the
numbers. "Iwe nty-on. thousand one
hundr,d and ffly-! wo' from one;
"rpw hundred dJlldrs' from tie other,
who, by-the-way, called out tew hun
1red dollars al least tew hundred tines.
But all the prizss were not or that
amount. ] CHANGED to hear the capital
DiIz- read out
''TWenty-eight th0us md four hum
Ired ard thiIty-nine" said Early.
:" Three hundred thousand dollars"
said BsauIegard.
The effect was startling; indeed tho
startled seus4s refused TO crap the
meaning OF the words. The chi rs re-
pea,ed the figures. The people in the
theatre craned forward, u hundred
pencils shot over pads or bits of paper
In mems and women's laps. Then a
murmur of voices sounded all over the
house. The routine on the stage was
%halte,', for the criers TOOK The two bits
IF nYar 10 anna siarRa MIN sat ar