Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from February 17, 1872
- The Fulton County Court met on February 12th where M. B. King was appointed overseer of the Troy Road to the top of Smith Hill and John Cloar appointed overseer of the Wilson Road. A petition was filed to survey a road from the Little Obion Ferry to the Hickman County line to intersect with the Columbus Road.
- Ezberth H. Osborn was scheduled to commence a series of sermons at the Hickman Baptist Church to begin on February 20th.
- A Temperance Conference planned to meet at Hickman Methodist Church on February 22nd and that J. J. Hickman would be the keynote speaker.
- The 1872 Annual Fulton County Agricultural and Mechanical Fair was to begin on September 24th and continue for five days.
- H. Plaut & Brothers Company declared they wished to purchase 10,000 bushels of “corn in the shuck” at the highest market price.
- William F. Adams and Virginia A. Worsham were married on February 12th in Hickman by Judge Wingate.
- Fulton County Representative A. S. Arnold in the State Legislature introduced bills to amend the Mississippi Levee Company Charter to aid in the construction of a levee on the Mississippi River in Fulton County, incorporate the Fulton and Hickman Railroad Company, and to incorporate the Tennessee and Mississippi River Railroad Company.
- A bill to reestablish the Court of Common Pleas in Hickman County passed in the lower house of the State Legislature. The bill will allow for a regular term of the District Court to be held in Clinton.
- A petition signed by citizens from a portion of Ballard County seeking to be annexed back to Hickman County was submitted to the State Legislature’s Committee on Grievances and later to the Judiciary Committee. A debate ensued on the floor of the Legislature between A. S. Arnold of Hickman County and Thomas Corbitt of Ballard County. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported a bill addressing the issue was on its way to passage.
- A mass meeting was held in Mayfield on February 12th to extend the corporate limits of the city and repeal “obnoxious laws.”
- A company was organized to build a gravel road from Mayfield to Paducah.
- Mary Cargill, of Mayfield, was almost burnt to death when her dress caught fire on February 13th.
- An editorial in the Paducah Kentuckian reprised the idea of the Jackson Purchase being annexed to the State of Tennessee which the Hickman Courier had mentioned several times during the past year.
- Former McCracken County Sheriff John C. Calhoun, of Paducah, slipped on the ice and broke his leg on February 10th.
- John Purdy married Nancy Long in Tiptonville, Tennessee – both were 63 years of age.
- James Thomas of Kenton, Tennessee was stabbed and seriously wounded on February 5th by Redin Thomason. Thomason knifed Thomas six times at a local store and escaped town.
- The Dyer County (Tennessee) Agricultural and Mechanical Society met and elected officers.
- A passenger train on the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad derailed five miles from Waverly, Tennessee on the morning of February 12th. Several people were severely injured as “two coaches turned over twice and the baggage car on its side.”