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Show LOTTERY VAMPIRE STRANCLED. The New Postal Law Has About Killad tha Louisiana Swindle. New Orleans, Jan. 21. The usual affidavit from stool pigeons of the lottery lot-tery company, stating that they held certain tickets and won the large prizes of $300,000 and $100,000, will not appear this month, as the prizes were sealed, and only one-fourth of each ticket was sold. This is a new scheme of the lottery lot-tery company. The mails closed to the company, the sale of tickets was comparatively small, aud so the lottery sharks "got even with the "purchasers by putting only fraction of each ticket in tho wheel. It is rumored that after the Mardi Gras festivities the monthly drawings will be discontinued. There will bo the usual crowd of 100,000 or more during the carnival, and the lottery lot-tery sharks invariably reap a rich harvest. har-vest. The daily drawings, which scoop up $10,000 a day. will be continued and further impoverish the poorer classes, who invest 25 or SO cents daily as regularly reg-ularly as they go to market. The usual price paid for affidavits from persons that they held a ticket that won JiiOO.OW) or $100,000 has also decreased. The price paid formerly was $1000 and even J'JtKiO, but now it is" reduced to $"00 and $250. |