The Olden Time Series Volume I Part 2

From the "Salem Gazette," May 10, 1791.

No. 17221, which drew 2000 dollars in the Semi-annual State lottery, was paid on Friday last, by Messrs. Leach and Fosd.i.c.k, in Boston. The proprietors were _four Africans_ belonging to Newport.

From the "Columbian Centinel," June 5, 1790.

Two apprentices belonging to Mr. _Bemis,_ Paper-Maker, in Watertown drew the 1000 dollar prize in Williamstown Lottery.

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_STATE LOTTERY TICKETS._

TICKETS in the _State Lottery_ may be had at MARGARET PHILLIPS's Shop, CORNHILL, _Boston. Also,_ TICKETS in the 7th Cla.s.s of _Williamstown Free-School_ Lottery. April 28.

_Columbian Centinel,_ April 28, 1790.

Lines on the prizes drawn by the poor widows of Marblehead. From the "Columbian Centinel," April 24, 1790.

_CASTALIAN FOUNT._

_FOR THE CENTINEL._

LINES,

_On the Prize of_ FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS _being drawn by the poor Widows of Marblehead, written there._

WHENCE this increase of wealth? What bounteous hand Grants more than sanguine Hope could e'en demand?

Nor _Chance_ nor _Fortune_ shall the merit claim, Those fancied forms to _Folly_ owe their name: Such airy phantoms ill deserve our lays; A n.o.bler object calls forth all our praise.

That Pow'r Supreme, who knows no great or small, But looks unchang'd with equal eye on all-- Who lifts the poor from their unnoted state, And humbles at his will th' aspiring great-- Whose hand divine hath held us in its span, And fed, and cloth'd us since our lives began-- Hath, sure, this last rich gift in kindness sent, To be improv'd, and not in riot spent; A further proof of Heav'n's indulgent care, In which our poorer neighbours ought to share.

Accept, Great G.o.d, what thankful hearts can give, For life and health, and all the means to live!

Much thou hast added to our former store; O keep us still as humble as before!

What thou hast lent, direct us how to use, And teach us when to give, and when refuse.

To others freely let our bounty flow, But not beyond Discretion's limits go.

Then let us live as useful as we can-- Grateful to G.o.d--beneficent to man-- Possess obscure the bliss of doing good, Never so well _explain'd_ as _understood._

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20,000!! 5,000!! 1000!!! Dollars.

WHO is there that would not give 6 dols. 50 for one of the above sums, or 1 dollar 75 cts. for a quarter of one of them.

Chances to gain one are now selling at the above prices, at KIDDER & CO's, _Lottery, Insurance on Tickets, and Intelligence Office, No. 9, Market-square._

Tickets and Quarters will be insured during the drawing of the Lottery, which presents an excellent chance for saving the cost of Tickets!! Adventurers will do well to call!!!

_Boston Palladium,_ June 9, 1807.

--> _LUCK INDEED!!_

YESTERDAY No. 2159 in the Kennebec Bridge Lottery, came up the valuable Prize of

_ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!_

and as usual was sold, at the most fortunate and truly lucky Office of

RALPH HUNTINGTON,

No. 14, Exchange-street, 3 doors from State-street. This is the 5th Capital Prize in the Kennebec Lottery, sold by RALPH HUNTINGTON.

The highest Prize of $25,000 will be drawn this afternoon, at 3 o'clock. R.H. has for sale, a few shares in a Company of 100 Tickets, and a few Quarters. Jan. 19.

_Boston Palladium,_ 1819.

No. 4072, the _most fortunate_ number, in the State Lottery, sold at the Printing-Office, in Salem, we hear is the property of upwards of a dozen poor widows belonging to Marblehead.

_Columbian Centinel,_ April 10, 1790.

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_FORTUNE'S ANGLERS_:

A NEW LOTTERY SONG.

_TUNE_--"_There are sweepers in high life as well as in low._"

In the fish pond of fortune men angle always, Some angle for t.i.tles, some angle for praise, Some angle for favor, some angle for wives, And some angle for nought all the days of their lives: _Ye who'd angle for_ Wealth, _and would_ Fortunes _obtain,_ _Get your hooks baited by_ Kidder, Gilbert & Dean.

Some angle for pleasure, some angle for pain, Some angle for trifles, some angle for gain, Some angle for glory, some angle for strife, Some angle to make themselves happy for life: _Ye who'd angle, &c._ Some angle for wit, and some angle for fame, Some angle for nonsense, and some e'en for shame, Some angle for horses, some angle for hounds, For angling's infinite, it never new bounds: _Ye who'd angle, &c._

G. & D. and W. & T.K. for the accommodation of those who purchase Tickets of them, keep _Daily Lists of Prizes and Blanks,_ and a complete statement of the wheels, which can be examined at the close of each day's drawing, free of expense.

And for the convenience of their country-customers publish in every paper, while any lottery is drawing, the numbers of all prizes over _seven dollars,_ state of the lottery, &c. &c.

--> Persons at a distance may be a.s.sured, that the most punctual and strict attention will be given their orders for tickets, (_post paid_) enclosing cash or prize tickets, addressed to GILBERT & DEAN, 79, _State street,_ or W. & T.

KIDDER, 9, _Market-square,_ and the earliest information sent them respecting the fate of their numbers.

*** _Prize Tickets in all the Lotteries taken in pay for other tickets._ March 24

_Boston Repertory,_ March 24, 1809.

--> Was.h.i.+ngton's Birth Day.