Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — The New Treasurer’s Autograph. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The New Treasurer’s Autograph.

Some time ago the Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Comwrctid furnished that jiaper with what purported to be facsimile of the new United States Treasurer’s autograph, which was extensively copied by Western papers. The Chicago Times of a recent date publishes an altogether different and much bet terlooking signature, which is probably genuine, and which we reproduce with the Times' indorsement, as follows: Now that a new man has taken charge of Uncle Sam’s .money-bags and anew name is to lie atfixed to the Government’s circulating medium, there is a pardonable curiosity in the public mind to know how he writes. To gratify this curiosity the ; Times has procured, and prints below, an exact facsimile of Mr. New’s signature. It is a bold, characteristic “hand,” and will hereafter ornament the greenbacks find national currency precisely thus-.

Trtasurer of the Vnited States.

—A case of haunted house in Philadelphia was recently cured by an adventurous minister, who hearing unearthly sounds in the deserted mansion felt the spirit move him to throw a brick through the front window. The result was a hasty exit of a number of tramps ami saeakthieves who had made the empty house their headquarters. Ghosts are at a discount in that vicinity now. —The claimant to a piece of ground in which a body is buried near Scranton. Pa., has put up the following notice on the grave “ Notis —This corpes is requested to remove immeaditley or j will remove the same.” —Die glorious Southern watermelon assumes an overbearing demeanor toward the Northern cucumber. “U —Trying to run “ Cat” newspapers in lean towns has cost $8,000,000 in this country within a year.