Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-15
A Benefit to the Henry 0. MerWtn
 Drum Corps.


 | A Benefit to the Henry 0. Merwin Drum Corps.
 A grand complimentary benefit will be rendered to Henry c. Merwin drum corps at the American Theater on Friday evening by the Murphy & Mack comedy company, as sisted by some of OUT local attractions. The drum corps consists as follows: Albert Skinner, leader; Messrs. Hackett and Laugh | lin, Julius Morgan and James Reilly, ffe1s snare drummers, John Lenahan, George Marshall, Messrs. Chadeayne and McDermott Harry Winston, (the infant drummer), John
 Reilly; base drummers, William E. Scran- ton, and instructor, William J. Skinner, who was drum major of the 18th regiment Con- necticut volunteers, drum major of the End regiment for years, and for some time in structor Tn drumming at the school of the late General Russell
 New Haven Decorative Art Society. Under the title of the New Haven Decora tive Art society number of ladies, residents
 of this city, will to-day open rooms at No.
 $50 Chapel street. Mrs. D. A. Sperry, who
 is we'll known to the ladies of New Haven,
 
 of the rooms The object of the society is
 the encouragement of the fine arts and the
 decorative industries. It was begun about
 five months ago as private enterprise, hav- ing it's origin in the Brooklyn Women's Ex- change, but the members, on account of the great encouragement they immediately received, decided at length to open it l. fhn npt citation numbers on it's list of members be- tween fifty and sixty of the best artists in the city. The members instructed in their several departments of art by compe- tent teachers, some of them from New York. At their opening to-day the ladies will ex- hbit to their patrons, both old ana new, about five thousand works of art, including some very fine paintings upon pottery ard silk embroidery. One of the most noticeable pieces at the rooms is the prize silk table cover in crazy work which has already received five first prizes at exhibitions throughout the country. Another beautiful work which shows the good taste of those in charge is the pair of curtains in the window facing upon Chapel street. These consist of can Ss>s, sE ys-Jz .--ss>A7s 9s7 sign by hand The management set forth ir their circular that membership fee for a year is $3, and for articles left for sale by
 members and sold d do Per f ssnt os Ssomnis%si1p m % members.
 Of Interest to Money Makers.
 New Haven business houses yesterday re- ceived the following supplement to the Unit ed States Treasury Counterfeit Detective for December: A new counterfeit $20 silver certificate has made it's appearance. It is printed from copper plate, but has the ap pearance of Autograph. It is very poorly printed and is easily detected. It purports to be of the act of February 18th, 1876, series of 1880, check letter B. The note bears the signature of B. K. Bruce register and James Gillian as treasurer. Genuine notes of this date and series are printed on fibre paper Cranes patent, the dis tinctive features of which are distributed fibre and two parallel silk threads running lengthwise through the paper. This is lack ing in the counterfeit, but is initiated by drawing with ink two parallel red and blue lines. Ink marks scattered on different portions of the note to initiate the distributed fibre. Portrait of Stephen De- catur is very poorly executed the lines in background are coarse, and run but one way the cross lines are missing which are to be found in the genuine. The lathe work is poorly initiated in all portions of the note. The commercials are badly printed, color of ink of seal and numbers poor, and have many misspelled and illegible words. In the sentence register of the t1easury' under the name Of B. K. Bruce the word ''registel" appears 'regisier," and the letters in the word treasury" are but partly formed. In the sen. tence "treasurer of the United States" under James Gilfllan's name, the word treasurer is spelled ''troosurer,' and the letters in the words 'sUnited States'' are very imperfectly formed. On back of note, 4l,,o spelled "engroved," and the rest of the sen tence is misspelled, with imperfect letter ing, as is also small lettering on upper DOT tion of back note.