of this ticket may be worth relating.  The owners of it were at Charlestown, late on the Saturday evening preceding the drawing of the lottery, and had mounted their horses to go on their way home, before they recollected wanting a ticket.  Mr. Bridge (who sold tickets in Charlestown) happened to be then up, at his house—­and went to his store, in the dark, and from his desk took the fortunate number, and sold it to the above fortunate persons.

Salem Gazette, May 17, 1791.

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Dartmouth College scheme, as advertised in the “Salem Gazette” in 1796.

Dartmouth College Lottery.

CLASS SECOND.

THE Managers of Dartmouth College Lottery present to the Public the following Scheme of the Second Class, in which they have aimed to meet their wishes by making a larger proportion of valuable prizes than usual; they flatter themselves that the same Public Spirit will be displayed, by encouraging the sale of Tickets in this, that was so fully manifested in the former Class.

SCHEME.

Prizes Dolls. Dolls.

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
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1896 Prizes.                  24,000
4140 Blanks.
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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 Class 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 CUSHING & CARLTON.

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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 advertisement from the “Salem Gazette.”

Look on this!