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A Falsehood Nailed

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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An irresponsible penny-a-linerrecently set going ia a New York Daily newspaper a malicious statement that the prizes of the Louisiana State Lottory Coinpany are paid to persons in its employ, and not honestly drawn and paid. This lie has been copied here and there into Journals unfnendly to the Company, and readers not aware of the facts are likely to be affected by them. An Ohio correspondent clips it from a local weekly and writes the Company on tho 6th inst. to ask if there is any truth in it. Lot GenerĂ¡is Beauregard and Early, who have the entire charge of all the Company's Drawingg, answer not only this correspondent but all whose faith in the Company has been disturbed by f.his and similar calumnious paragraphs. iead the exact languago of GenerĂ¡is Beauregard and Early in the following statement, to which thoir names are signed: The charges, insinuations, and inuendoes contained in said publication are f alse in every respect, so f ar as they affect the fairness of the drawings of the Louisiana Lottery, or tho integrity of the acts of the Lottery Company. When the undersigned liad charge only of tho semi-annua? drawings they counted the tubes containing the numbers previous to each of those drawings to be certain that all were put in the wheel. Since they have had charge of the monthly drawings also, the wheel has been nnder their exclusive control, and after each drawing they have restored all the drawn numbers to the wheel, locked it, and sealed it in such manner as to render it impossible for the numbers to be reached or interfered with without their knowledge. They have thus been always certain that all the numbers were in tho wheel at each drawing, and they alone are responsible for the integrity of the drawings. The intimation that persons hare been paid to allow they: names to be published as the winners of prizes in this Lottery is also false and without the slightest foundation in fact, Millions of dollars have been paid out by the Company in prizes through the banks and express agencies, as oan be ascertained from the bank ofiicer3 in New Orleans, and the ospress agents in New York, Washington City, and in this city, as well as from the winners of the prizes whose names have been given to the public.

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Ann Arbor Democrat