This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – April 27, 1872
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2022
Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from April 27, 1872
- The Mississippi River was “falling beautifully” and “news from above is favorable.”
- Farmers in the Western Kentucky remarked that wheat crop prospect may be the best in many years.
- Receipts of freights at Hickman were much larger than any previous year for the spring season.
- The Wittig family gave another music concert at the Hickman City Hall on the night of April 22nd. The event was well attended and “highly satisfactory” to the audience.
- Local doctors in Hickman report the general health in the community was improving.
- Community leaders requested “Christian people” to provide “worthy objects of charity” to several destitute and suffering families in Hickman.
- Two cases of “wife whipping” were tried before the Hickman Police Court during the past week.
- Bishop George Cummings’ appointment at Hickman had been changed to May 10th.
- Stegala & Lane relocated their billiard saloon to a new building in Hickman.
- Ed Mangel’s bakery and confectionary house was under considerable repair to improve the appearance of the building.
- Gid Garrett and Miss Jennie Cobbs launched a mantua business in Hickman at the corner of Jackson and Cumberland streets.
- The manufacture of brick was being heavily engaged in at Hickman. The cost of bricks was expected drop as a result.
- The City Marshal of Hickman was to be elected in August, but no candidates have stepped forward to run for the upcoming vacant position. The names of William Gardner, John Cole, and William T. Lineback had been mentioned.
- George W. Silvertooth had been spoken of as a prospective candidate for Circuit Judge in this district.
- State Representative A. S. Arnold was scheduled to make an address at the Fulton County Court House on May 13th.
- A night passenger train was planned to begin departing Hickman on a regular basis soon.
- The Hickman Courier advocated for the construction of a railroad from Hickman to the Holly Springs & Brownsville Railroad through the Tennessee counties of Obion and Dyer.
- The Hickman Courier suggested John M. Bigger would be a suitable representative for Democratic Party of the First Congressional District.
- County Judge John W. Wingate moved his office to rooms above Holcombe’s Drugstore in Hickman.
- Judge A. D. Kingman delivered temperance lectures at Jordan Station and Union Church lodges on April 20th and 21st.
- The Temperance Convention of Fulton County planned to hold a meeting at Jordan Station on May 1st.
- John Dodds was appointed the depot agent at Hickman and William Pryor was promoted to the Superintendent’s Office.
- Mary F. Oliver died at her residence in Fulton County on April 16th at the age of 23. She left a husband and child.
- Mary Z. French died on April 21st at the Hickman residence of her father Samuel Lauderdale.
- William Tedford, extensively known throughout the South, was a visitor in Hickman.
- John A. Brinnon, a wood chopper, was runover and killed by a locomotive near Clinton Station in Hickman County.
- On the night of April 23rd, a squad of six or eight disguised men visited the house of Mrs. Featherstone in Moscow and shot her after a melee of gunfire. It was believed that men were “composed of good citizens” who wished to rid Mrs. Featherston from their community. She survived the attack with a slight wound to the arm.
- The Ballard County Circuit Court convened at Blandville on April 22nd with a sizable docket and “several knotty criminal cases.”
- The Paducah Tobacco Plant announced W. C. Clark as a candidate for U. S. Congress in the First District.
- Paducah was reported to have had a bloodless duel. Both combatants appeared to have fell to the ground after firing without being injured.
- C. Edwards of Dresden, Tennessee died on April 5th at the age of 73.
- The Sykes family of Union City, Tennessee had two grown daughters that did not weigh over 50 pounds nor were over 40 inches high.
- D. C. Atkins was scheduled to address the Agricultural & Mechanical Association of Southwest Kentucky and West Tennessee at Union City, Tennessee on October 1st.
- J. Bracken of Union City, Tennessee, and formerly of Lovelaceville, died in Bowling Green, Kentucky on April 25th.
- May 10th was to be observed as Decoration Day by the Confederate Memorial Society of Nashville.