Robert DICKSON Has Cotton Missing (1866)
Cotton Stealing – On Friday morning last Col. Rob’t DICKSON discovered that there was a bale of cotton missing from his place of deposit at the depot. Naturally enough he set to work to trace it up, and as it was too large a package to secrete well, succeeded in stumbling on it at the new portable store house of M. THANNHOUSER & Co., who allege they bought it from a negro for twenty-nine dollars? The negro ought to be punished for permitting his Israelitish friend to swindle him so badly. No arrest or examination has been made that we have heard of.
The Pulaski citizen. (Pulaski, Tenn.), 09 March 1866. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033964/1866-03-09/ed-1/seq-3/>