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Show THOSE LOTTERIES. The season for holiday trading - has again arrrrod and storekeepers, throughout theState ore adopting various plans of booming the sales of their, holiday goods. Among the different plansmoticed ard sev-. eral in which tire element of 1 chance enters, andv by means of . which premiums are vew to certain cer-tain purchasers. of e most popular is the offering to, the purchaser pur-chaser of goods to a certain amount a chance in Vf lottery in which the prize is som6 article of nlCTchandiso. A nuniber of ad-' ad-' vertiseraents relating -.to . thes3 :j schemes ' have bee offered The ; Union, which we have leen obliged t to decline, as thV Unit . States postal laws forbid the u9e of the j mails to publipations containing notices of that nature. A number of our counijry exchanges, seem not to hate i. fceen , made - aw are of this fct by their postmksters. Tho Unite States laws iu'force against lotteries are very stringent and the Jem "lottery" i hiale to cover 11' manner of-"gift'V 'chance'' and "drawing" enter-. prisesy . We , understand that tlere is olsp a very sweeping and strict State law in Utah relating to theso affairs,' and llieve that, the Ciy ordinances, also .deal .witix thein.. ! Hpnce, for -the reasons, assigned above, The Union will be oblige to declihe' advertWdments of 'all kinds which, relate . to matters in j which the . element of chance is a I drawing cai d. :,v ; ; . ' . 1 . |