Litchfield Enquirer

Lotteries.-Charles White, an itinerant vendor of Foreign Lottery Tickets, was on Saturday sentenced by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to pay a fine of two thousand dollars to the President and Treasurer of the Union Canal Company. Judge Kiogin, passing sentence, said, in that the evils resulting from lottery gambling were most appalling; that if he was called to select any one thing most mischievous in its public tendency, more productive of poverty and insolvency than any other, it was the fatal mania for lottery gambling, that seemed to pervade no inconsiderable part of the community-that he had determined by decisive measures, in every case that came before him, where lottery tickets were sold in violation of the laws of the state, to punish the offenders to the extent of the statute, and thus, if possible, diminish an evil that was daily sapping the public morals.-The defendant was committed.-Phil. paper.