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Show While Pauis ixvmir.4 bor li'e; kcopera sntl tr;:i!;-ppi.-plo to rob Btrai)gcra by ov.ircli jrd, l-ora not allow her own euizenn to be cheated 'with impunity. llt-ceully twenty-eight dishoncdt tradesmen ' wcro takon before the police court, and duly fiued for swindling- A coal morohant who swindled in weight wse fined $10 and imprisoned one week; a grocer was fined $10 for selling gocdB poorer in quality than he rcpre eentcd them to be; fifteen ealoon keepers were fined $10 each J-ind imprisoned for adulterating their liquors; nine milkmen were lined and imprisoned for watering their milk, and two bakcra wcro mulcted for using light weights. There are occasional complaints in this city ol all tho practices above noted; but it ia seldom that a dishouent tradesman IB punished for h.s swindling. |