{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
Fortunes last Frohc.-A somewhat sim
gular freak of dame fortune is mentioned in
the Commercial Advertiser. A poor man
who had fallen into "durance vile, bcsought
the officer in whose hands he was, to take
three tickets in the last Literature Lottery
(Which was all he had in the world to Of
fer him though not equal to the denand,)
and to let him so. The officer took the tick.
cts, handed them over to the creditor and
the prisoner was released from his coniine-
ment. In a few days after, one OF these
tickets came out a prize Of tzpenty.fve
thousand dollars. This identical ticket had
been offered to the officer by the creditor,
as gratuity for his services. who declined
taking it as he did not like the number, but
chose another which drew blank. 1t is
to be hoped that the holder OF the ticket
will at least divide his good fortune with the
poor man who was it's owner, and who gave
up his claim to the whole upon the compul.
sion of the law.