Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1877 — Elegant Counterfeits. [ARTICLE]

Elegant Counterfeits.

Mr. Brooks has telegraphed to Chicago that the reported SSO counterfeit there must be good, as it is printed on fiber paper, but this is not a sufficient guaranty. The excellent counterfeit of the SSOO treasury note made by Tom Ballard was printed on fiber paper. He took a dollar note and washed out the colors, so as to give him die paper for hie counterfeit This may be the way with the Chicago counterfeit. The latest counterfeit is the new $5 upon the First National Bank of Tamaqua. This has just been received at the Treasury Department for description. Its excellence is alarming. The only way that it differs from the genuine is that the counterfeit is more skillfully executed. It has only one fault, that being that it it is too good. The only marked difference that is at present specified is in the chartered numbers printed on the bills. The safest course will be to reject all bills on this bank. It is understood that the issue of this bank is to be called in at once as the only safe way to defeat this counterfeit. Washington Cor. Chicago Times. A class of twenty-three young Boston women has successfully prosecuted diamond cutting, which has heretofore been carried on almost exclusively by the Jews of Amsterdam. The girls cut and polish the diamonds in an excellent manner.