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A Lesson For Employers

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
January
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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JüDGMENTlatelyprononnced by acourt of justice at Dresden may serve as a warn ing to those benevolent persons in Ger many, at all evcnts, who may be tempted to give their servants on discharge a better oharacter than they had proved themselves cnlitled to. A merchant at Dresden a short time ago engaged a young man belonging to a famíly of jood position, and highlyrecommendcd by his last employers, as cashier in a retan place of business. In this position it was his duty to receive all money paid in during the day and convey it in the evening to the head bookke'eper of the establishment. Several circumstances led to the suspicion that the nevv cashier did not give up at the end of the rlay all the money paid to him during the hours of business. Consequcntlv% arrangements were made for checkiñg the sums collected and paid over by the young man, and in a few days it was iseertained that he had appropriated at least eighty pounds. The defaulting cashier was accordingly summarily dismissed, and his cmployerapplied to the merchant who had originally given him a good character for repay'ment of the sum stolen. This the merchant refuscd, but on the matter being taken before a court of justice, and on its being shown hal the young man had been discharged y his lirst employer because he had stolen money from him, and that the rood character had been given him rom a feeling of pity, tho original employer was ordered to mako good his protege' s defaleation.- Poll Mali Qaeetlc. -#-- - A post-mortem examination of the bodyot J. G. Birehim, of Austin, Nev., who died at San José, revealed the fact that his interna] organs were all transposed, those that in the ordinary human being are on the right side being on the left side, and vice versa, This condition as regarded the deoeased was entirely norma). He was, np to the time of tho sickness whieh terminated in his death, a large, powerful and robust man.

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