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Counterfeiting

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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- The statisties oí counterfeiting ia the United States show that, out of 1380 banks, only 253 havo escaped untirely all species of frauds. Of these, 143 are riot tf orth counterfeit ing. New York city has three, Marylaud four, and Massachusetts seven banks not . counterfeited. The better the bank the more the counterfeits it will have. Florida has no counterfeit, for its paper íb of doubtful value. Iowa has none; ín fact, has but one bank - tho State - with a few braucb.es. Masgachuselts bas 182 banks. New York has 195, of which 45 are not counterfeited. Mass-achusetts is tba on)y State tbat bas au association to prevent eounterfeiting. The total number of kinds of couuteifeits in eircuiation, ie 5,092, so far as determinad by tho record Tiie new national bilis will give the counterteitcrs a new supply of work to procuro counterfeit plates, which probably they will appy themselves to with alacrity aud delight. Kand Inokease op Divoucks in Nkw Yoiik. - The divorce cases, aa the records of the court show, are rapidly iucreasing here, havQg been twice as numerous for the year endiüg July lst as they were duriug the previous year, and five tiniee as tnany as they were in 1861. The war has done much to unsettle domestic aifairs, and engender au irregularity and a resüe.siiess that rarely tend to augment the harmony of married couples. Just at present, the Superior and Supramo Courts are granling ten or twelvo divoroes each week. - N. Y. Tribune. Au honest Germán in Philadelphia, listening to an account of a married woman's elopeinun' with "another man," the other day, got greatly excited over it, and spluttered forth with the great est vehumenco : " If my vife rura away mit anoder man's vife, I will shake him out of her preeches, if she bo mine own fuder,mine Got. John ]fll has returued to Na,= hvillp, where he desigos again taking up his resideuce.

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Michigan Argus