A Dangerous Two-dollar Bill

A Dangerous Two-Dollar Bill.

WASHINGTON CITY, March 30.--A sensation has been caused at the treasury department by the discovery of a counterfeit $2 silver certificate so nearly perfect in all its parts as to be almost impossible of detection. The paper of the genuine is for the first time almost perfectly imitated in the counterfeit. So far as is now known, it has been used in counterfeiting the $2 certificates of the series of 1886. This note was devised under the supervision of Treasurer Jordan, and contains on its face a vignette of Gen. Hancock. It is estimated that there is now nearly $40,000,000 of these notes in circulation.