Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1878 — Fraudulent Tickets. [ARTICLE]

Fraudulent Tickets.

The Pittsburgh. Ciuciunati & St, Louis Railway Company have issued the lollowing circular to its conductors: Dec. Ist, 1878. To Conductors: From thi6 date vou will refuse to honor any of the old form of stop over chi cks that may be presented for pa>-sa *e, ns large numbers, aud probably all iu circulation, are forged and fraudulently issued, the genuine issue of the old form having been withdrawn from use two years since. Explain this to passengers presenting the old form of stop-over checks; refer them to parties from whom the checks were obtained for redress, and state that the stop-over checks of the old |form which prove, upon investi’Jrntion, not to have been fraudulentlv issued, will be redeemed by the unJeislgne In issuing stop over checks now in use. be particular to call the attention of passengers to the fifteen-day Um \ W. l. O’Brien, Gen’l Pass. aDd Ticket Agent. Travelers are cautioned against purchasing tickets from irresponsible ticket specula*ors. The only protection against fraudulent issues, lost or stolen tickets, is always to purchase tickets frona the authorized agents of the railroad compauy.

panel flowers i—something New. Handsome and Cheap!! Also, a large issostmeut of Chbomos and Mottoes, just received at the Furniture Booms of Loughry & Co., in Reynolds’Block. Mouticelio, Ind. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody to call and see for themselves. It is a pleasure aud pride to show these goods.

“Sam Collyer,” the Brize fighter, has been released from the New Jersey State Prison. Upon his return to New York he said to a friend: “Ireturu home as Walter Jamison, wishing lo forget the years I lived as Sam Collyer. Governor McClellan and others have not only released me from prison; they have made a man of me. My past life I wish to forget.”