respectability of the calling. The better the man, the better the agent.
Indeed, it was generally thought to be just as respectable to sell
lottery-tickets as to sell Bibles; and we have seen them classed
together in the same advertisement. Our observations have been confined
chiefly to Boston and Salem prints, but we have no doubt that similar
matter could be found in other papers. We propose now to give liberal
extracts from some of the old advertisements of the different schemes,
which will, we think, confirm what we have already said on the subject.
Let us take first from the "Boston Gazette" of May 19, 1760, the lottery
to raise $1,000 towards building a bridge over the River Parker, in
Newbury. The managers were the first men in the place, and the tickets
were sold by men of excellent standing in Boston.


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NEWBURY, _May 17, 1760._

SCHEME of a LOTTERY,

FOR raising a Sum of Money for the building and maintaining a
Bridge over the River _Parker,_ in the Town of _Newbury,_ at
the Place called Old Town Ferry (in pursuance of an Act of
the General Court, passed in _April_ 1760) Wherein _Daniel
Farnham, Caleb Cushing, Joseph Gerrish, William Atkins,_ Esq.,
and Mr. _Patrick Tracy,_ Merchant, (or any Three of them) are
appointed Managers. The acting Managers are sworn to the
faithful Performance of their Trust.

_Newbury_-Lottery Number Four, consists of