The Olden Time Series Volume I Part 4

1 of 3000 is 3000 1 1000 1000 4 500 are 2000 10 200 2000 20 100 2000 30 50 1500 80 20 1600 100 10 1000 1650 6 9900 ----- ------ 1896 _Prizes._ 24,000 4140 _Blanks._ ----- 6000 _Tickets, at 4 Dollars each, are_ 24,000.

Subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent.

Of the above prizes of 500 Dollars, one of them will be placed to the first drawn blank, and the other three to the three last drawn blanks.

This Cla.s.s will positively commence drawing at Concord, on the 1st day of December next; and when completed, a list of Prizes will be immediately published, and the prizes paid on demand.

JONATHAN FREEMAN, } BENJAMIN CONNOR, } Managers.

WILLIAM J. KENT, }

Concord, Aug. 17, 1796.

TICKETS sold by JOHN JENKS and CUs.h.i.+NG & CARLTON.

Harvard College appears to have seen the "misery of adventurers drawing blanks which were worth nothing," and remedied the matter in 1811, according to the following advertis.e.m.e.nt from the "Salem Gazette."

Look on this!

THE serious evil which has fallen upon a great many adventurers, by purchasing Tickets in former lotteries, and drawing blanks which were worth nothing; appears now to be remedied.--The managers of the Fifth Cla.s.s of Harvard College Lottery, have in their wisdom taken the misery of this evil into consideration and have given us a scheme preferable to any former one; by which it seems that from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars will be distributed among persons whose tickets are drawn blanks in this lottery, which commences drawing in a few days; and the greater part of the Tickets are now sold.

_Whole and Quarter Tickets_ for sale at the Bookstore and Lottery Office of

HENRY WHIPPLE,

June 7, 1811. _No. 6, Wakefield Place._

A Boston paper of 1811 has the following:

Was.h.i.+ngton Monument Lottery

WILL commence drawing in Baltimore the 4th day of September next.

The Capital Prizes are 1 of 50,000 dollars, 1 of 30,000, 1 of 20,000, 2 of 10,000, 3 of 5,000, 20 of 100 Tickets, And many of 2000, 1000, 500, &c. &c.

Tickets and Quarters for Sale by Simpson and Caldwell, of Baltimore, who request all persons who wish to purchase Tickets and Quarters in the above Lottery, to forward their orders, post paid, enclosing cash, to Messrs. BRIDGE & RENOUF, No. 79, state street, Boston; and they may depend on their orders being promptly executed.

Price of Tickets 11 dollars--Quarters 2 87.

Aug. 13, 1811.

The "Union Ca.n.a.l Lottery" was got up in 1814 to benefit Boston and "make it advance like New York." Here is a notice of the scheme from a Salem paper,--

_Union Ca.n.a.l Lottery._

First Cla.s.s.--Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars.

It rarely happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting to the whole community. To save the _Metropolis of New-England_ from declining in its commerce and consequence on the return of a general peace--to open its internal resources, to unite New-Hamps.h.i.+re & Vermont to Ma.s.sachusetts, by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and ca.n.a.ls, by which their intercourse will be carried on--to make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous, extensive and productive back country, are _considerations_ into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every owner of real estate, must enter and must feel. It is therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation, will receive peculiar support; and that _many_ who have not been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this for the sake of _its object._

The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety days after the drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty days, and payment will be made in bills generally current in Boston. Prizes must be demanded in one year from the end of the drawing of the Cla.s.s.

This Cla.s.s will commence drawing in Boston, on the 12th December next.

Tickets to be returned on or before the 2d December.

BENJAMIN WELD, WILLIAM A. KENT, ANDREW SIGOURNEY,

_Boston, Nov._ 8, 1814. _Managers._

After lotteries had been drawn, notices frequently appeared in the papers announcing the names of the lucky prize-winners. For instance, a Boston paper of 1790 says: "The highest Prize (3,000) in the New York Lottery was drawn by 2 deserving Servant girls of New York;" and in Sept. 21, 1793: "The highest prize in the 4th Cla.s.s of the State Lottery ($1,000) was drawn by Mr. Benjamin Blodgett, of this town;" and the "Salem Gazette" of 1815 says: "Luther Martin, Esq., has drawn $15,000, the Highest prize in the Baltimore Hospital Lottery;" and it adds: "Those who envy the good Fortune of Mr. Martin will call on Cus.h.i.+ng & Appleton for Tickets in the Harvard College Lottery." In November, 1790, the "Salem Gazette" says that the call for tickets in the Ma.s.sachusetts Semi-annual Lottery "has been so great in the other States that the Managers expect to draw much sooner than the time which was at first mentioned;" also that the tickets in the Marblehead Lottery are meeting with a rapid sale; and concludes that "this does not indicate a scarcity of Cash."

Here are some curious advertis.e.m.e.nts:--

From the "Columbian Centinel," Boston, May 22, 1790.

WILLIAMSTOWN _FREE SCHOOL_ LOTTERY.

We are authorised to _a.s.sure_ the Publick, and we do _a.s.sure_ them--that the 7th Cla.s.s of this Lottery will not only commence drawing on Monday next, but will _positively_ be _completed_ on _Tuesday_ morning--and a list of Prizes will be published in the CENTINEL the same week.

The metropolis of Ma.s.sachusetts hath ever been celebrated for the attention it hath paid to the education of its youth. In the elder world, a FRANKLIN hath been a living testimony of it, as well as in the younger. But not confined to the youth of the town is this benevolent disposition--it extends to the remotest parts of the Commonwealth; and hath been abundantly manifested in the liberal encouragement given to the Williamstown Free-School Lottery. The Cla.s.s to be drawn on Monday next, will perhaps, be the last opportunity our citizens may have to gratify their humane wishes--which they will not let pa.s.s unimproved, especially as great pecuniary profit _may_ attend the gratification.

"Salem Gazette," Nov. 24, 1812.

GALVANISM.

It has been found by Dr. NAUCHE, at Paris, that a person perfectly blind may be made to see very lively and numerous flashes of light, by bringing one extremity of the voltaic pile into communication with the hand or foot, and the other with the face, skin of the head, or even the neck. In like manner, a person in the gloom of poverty may be made to perceive very lively and numerous flashes (say 20,000) of good fortune by bringing one extremity of a ragged bank bill into communication with the Book-Store and the other with the Lottery-Office, one door west of Central Building.

N.B.--Two grand piles are now offered to the public--Harvard College, where the process is now in active operation, and Plymouth Beach which is in a state of preparation.

"Salem Gazette."

_Writing_

_Taught in One Lesson!!_

PERSONS of any age, s.e.x, or capacity, _let their Chirography be never so bad,_ may by _one_ exercise _make a_ VERY GOOD HAND _of it._ The means are found in the Scheme of Harvard College Lottery, which contains a most superb a.s.sortment of capital prizes. Persons desirous of securing the advantage of this _dispatchful_ tuition will apply (wholes $5, quarters 1.38) to CUs.h.i.+NG & APPLETON, at their Lottery Office and Bookstore, one door west of Central Building. 1811.