Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1875 — A $500 Counterfeit. [ARTICLE]

A $500 Counterfeit.

One of the Secret Service officers of the United States Treasury Department recently discovered that a SSOO United States Treasury note had been in circulation in Maine about which there was a doubt as to genuineness. The note was found at one of the hanks in that State which had stopped its circulation, although the cashier was himself in doubt as to whether it was a counterfeit or otherwise, it having been examined at the bank by a gentleman who is engaged in teaching the art of detecting counterfeit money, and pronounced by him a genuine hill. It was sent to this city and has been examined by the chief operative of the Boston district of the Secret Service Division and by an expert at the Sub-Treasury, who both have pronounced it a counterfeit. For the benefit of that portion of the public who have many five-hundred hills we have made an inquiry at the New England office of the Secret Service in this city and Mr. Kent informs us that the difference between a genuine SSOO United States Treasury note and the counterfeit is that on the genuine the buttons on the coat of John Quincy Adams are perfectly round, while on the counterfeit they have an irregular or mire of an octagonal form; on the genuine the small toes of the female figure of Justice are full and natural, while on the counterfeit the small toes are very small and the little ones very obscure. He says there are very few of these notes in circulation or even in existence, and that probably no counterfeit, not excepting the fives of the National Bank of Chicago, has ever been issued which is so well calculated to deceive. —Boston Journal. The Youngstown (Ohio) Register tells a tough story. A man employed in one of the iron mills in that place had a finger cut off m the large shears. The Register closes the “item” with this statement: “ The first intimation that Mr. Cook had of his misfortune was from a fellowworkman, who picked up the end of the severed finger from under the shears and handed it to him.” If that man should be hanged he wouldn’t know anything about it until some kind friend called his attention to the account of the execution in the newspapers. <tr A veby hospitable lady, who does not live over fifty miles from Utica, gave a party for her friends, among the young misses and masters, the other evening. Round d&nces were proposed, when the lady said: “I cannot allow you to have any round dancts. If any of the boys wish to hug the girls, Jet them sit down upon the tetes and go right at it in earnest, but—no round dances, mind you!” Wasn’t that sensible? —Clara Louise Kellogg tells untruths. She sayS she wouldn’t marry the best man in America. It is ft joke, however. She knows we’ve been married a number of years.— Rochester Democrat.