Attention Publishers

Attorney-General Taggart calis the attention of uewspapers to the law agalnst advertising Jotteries, referring especlally to the LouUiana state lottery. Ue says: 1 have been requested to direct the attention ot the i rotecuting attorneys to tlus violntion of law, and in several intllce.s have done so. ilany newspaper uien are uudoubtedly ignorant of the law, and others, quitu likely. nssume that the advertisenit'nt being ciothed in an editorinl garb, does not coine within the prohiLition agaiust lotteries, found in chapter 'M ol Howell's statutes.