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Show Qlmk a fcLiisjtiyu was produced in s:. Louis li-st week in consequence of tho discovery of some heavy forgeries eominitu.d in that city by sonio par-3;co par-3;co heretofore respectable and encag-ci encag-ci business t'.iere. It seems thai targe Kims, estimated .it from seventy to two hundred thousand dollars, wore obtained frjni dirlerent banks on U-g-as warehouse receipts. In cui:sj-quence cui:sj-quence of tb.cic discevcries t':c com-a)-8s;on house of Alexander, Honn.m i Co. ::js "laileu fiom grace." Bethel C. A.cxmder, the senior member of' ursi.a:ter arrest, made lean bre-Mt of the facts in the cose, iron: which it appears that the fonrerics have been going on fur the Ut six months, and that fUo -:ratcbif-." watch we suppose to mean the actual forgery of names, w.u committed by C. K. Sutppervl. a clerk employed Vy the Lrm. As is usually the excuse in turn cises, temporary embarrass-, raenta induced a resort to this, guilty mcde cf rais:::g means. L'i' course! Alexander intended to take up all the ;"j7ged paper, and would have done it 1-i.d the deovery Wen delay tU liftccn d iys io:er; but, rd.is! the dicovery c Alexander, it seems, w.vs try- i"g " to arrange matters with! :.:s v:eU;::: the Kuiks in ouler! O prevent any further er!nij!i r-c:efdin. And as he and? r-:ceo.- four of the bank presidents! v-vre hoLr.oboir,g togetlc.T at a res tan-1' r-'-n: it U not at all unlikely tii.il he w:.: --.ircviI. i, |