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Show Oooortilnr; Oirllisnocl. We see by one of our exchanges that a banker in South America hos been convicted of illegally is-suing is-suing $9,000,000 and was sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for his crime. A dispatch from Panama, Columbia, Col-umbia, speaks thus of the matter: "Aeturo Malo Oleary, of Bogota, manager of the national bank in that city, has been sentenced to fif-f fif-f teen months' imprisonment for the crime of issuing illegal notes. The convicted man must also pay a fine of $398,000 and suffer incarceration incarcera-tion for thirty-seven days in addition addi-tion to the regular term, for presenting pre-senting false reports and balance sheets. The notes issued amounted amount-ed to 89,000,000." Tiuly civilization is spreading rapidly or this mumdano sphere in these latter days! How long will it be until honesty will be extinct ex-tinct among certain classes, if something is not done tomako each one do as they would bo done by? |