Official Lists of the two first Lotteries will be received by E.H.P. on the evenings of the days of the drawings. tf Dec 10.
Salem Observer, 1825.
Fortune's Favourite Sons,
ARE informed that Stonington Point Meeting-Houſe Lottery will poſitively commence drawing the 19th of May—viz. this day four weeks. In this Lottery of only 6000 Tickets, are one of 3000 dollars—one of 1000—five of 500—two of 400—three of 300—ten of 200—twenty of 100, &c. Tickets for 3 Dollars, for ſale, and prizes in the Eaſtern Stage Road Lottery, taken in pay.—Alſo Caſh paid for thoſe ſold by Thomas Hildrup.
N.B. Adventurers may know their fate from his Liſt of Prizes.
Hartford, April 21, 1794.
Connecticut Courant.
To show how largely men's minds—and perhaps women's too—were filled with the lottery mania, if we may so call it, in the days of which we are writing, we will introduce a Southern scheme from the "Petersburg Intelligencer" of 1816, copied in the "Salem Register," September 11 of that year. Some of our readers may think that it is not a bad idea.