Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1878 — FRAUDS ON THE PUBLIC. [ARTICLE]

FRAUDS ON THE PUBLIC.

Passel and'Counterfeit Tickets. [From tho Detroit Free I’ross.] The traveling public should un-. derstand tha,t the railroads, in order to protect themselves from frauds, instruct their conductors to take up passes and collect fare from persons who cannot be identified as the legiiimate possessors of such courtesies. The extension of the sys tern of limited tickets also makes it a matter of decided risk to purchase tickets anywhere but at a regular railroad ticket office. The economically inclined passenger, with a ticket bought at reduced rates at an irresponsible “scalping” office, may find himself, at the very beginning ot his journey, caught up by the conductor with a ticket Arbose-dale-has-expired, and which is therefore not valid for passage. There would not be much economy in that for the passenger. Besides, the business of counterfeiting railroad tickets has been quite extensively gone into of late, and counterfeit tickets are frequently offered for sale. A gang of ticket counterfeiters were not long ago detected at Indianapolis and a part of them arrested. The work of counterfeiting still continues, and the railroads, to protect themselves, have adopted new forms and taken other precautions to shield themselves against loss. So far as the public is concerned the moral is very plain: “Never buy tickets of outsiders or at ’unauthorized ticket offices.”

Messrs. 11. O. Houghton & Company, of Boston, publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, have just issued a fine, life-sizeportrait of John Greenleaf W hittier, tlio beloved and honored (Quaker poet, whose name is a household word in tens oTUiousanda of LomesT"and whSF 2 ever the English language is spoken. The fact that'Mr. Whittier has just completed his 70th year makes the publication ot his portrait at this time peculiarly appropriate, and we are sure that there are many of our readers who will be glad to avail themselves of this opportunity to procure it. The price of the porers of the Atlantic Monthly is but One Dollar, and the picture, which is of unusual excellence and finish, is the work of Mr. J. E. Baker, one of the best crayon artists in the country. The Atlantic itself presents a most attractive programme for the coming year,—serial stories by W. D. Howells, Henry J antes, Jr., and W. 11. Bishop; short stories by T. B. Aldrich, Rose Terry Cooke, Constance F. Woolson, J. W. De Forest, and others ; frequent sketches and essays by by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, the two best /American humorists; description of foreign life and travel by the sculptor Story, T. B. Aldrich and C. E. Norton; poetry by Whittier, Longfellow, and Holmes; and, last but not least, -T* thorough and iiuparu«l4reanueiU of questions of public interest, such as Finance, Government Reform, etc. — all fur $4.00 a year. The publishers will moreover send the November and December numbers for the year past free to all new subscribers who ask for them. Beautiful life-size portraits of Longfellow and Bryant, similar to that of Whittier, can also obtained by subscribers or purchasers, if desired, for One Dollar, each, additional. The Galaxy, which has for the past eleven years been ]>rominent ahi] popular to a rare degree limdng - h a s been consolidated with the Atlantic, thus widening the field and strengthening the hold of the latter upon public favor and esteem. The merchants of Rensselaer are that, place contain frpm ten to twelve columns of local advertisements each.—Goodland Register. ..Yes, sir, tlio Rensselaer merchants appreciate the value of advertising. They are wide awake, energetic business men, and know that it pays to advertise. Nothing speaks better for the enterprise of a town than a set ot business men who know tho value of printers’ ink and are not afraid to make lib--u. ■» ■ .v ■ ..... erai use of it; - Luther Benson has agaip fallen from grace