Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from August 3, 1872
- A heatwave caused Hickman citizens discomfort and severe storms damaged wheat crops at nearby farms. Many farmers feared an “entire failure” of the fruit crop this season, but the melon harvest was deemed to be “immense” and were being shipped to distant markets.
- Sunday Schools from Huntingdon, McKenzie, Dresden, Gardner, Union City, and other church communities along the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad met on August 3rd at the courthouse in Hickman for a reception and excursion. C. L. Randle, Commonwealth Attorney for the District, delivered the welcoming address and the Hickman Cornet Band entertained the visitors.
- A man jumped through the window of a railroad car on the Nashville & Northwestern Rail line fracturing his skull.
- F. Marrs showed interest in the Hickman Flouring Mills with plans to have it run at full capacity.
- Tom McMahan began construction of a brick residential building in the Gourley’s Addition of Hickman.
- Reverend N. N. Cowgill planned to preach at the Hickman Methodist Church on August 4th.
- Eugene, the son of J. H. Davis, broke his arm on July 28th after falling from a tree.
- The election of the Hickman City Marshal was scheduled for August 5th. Four candidates were in the running for the position.
- Winfred McConnell was in Hickman campaigning for Greeley and Brown.
- The Hickman Courier claims that Ed Crossland will carry “99 and 9 10th percent of the Democratic vote of the Congressional District.”
- Ed Crossland and John Martin, candidates for Congress, planned to debate at the Hickman County Courthouse on August 12th.
- John T. Bolinger, a district leader in the Republican Party, was noted to have declared support for Horace Greeley for President.
- John Anderson of Fulton announced he would be a candidate for Fulton County Coroner.
- The Fulton County Temperance Conference met on August 3rd.
- The Fulton County Court was scheduled to commence on August 5th.
- Republican “radicals” held a rally in Columbus on August 3rd.
- The citizens of Hickman County enjoyed a barbecue at the residence of Jonathan Buggs near Moscow. The candidates for Hickman County Sheriff campaigned at the gathering.
- The corn crop at Madrid Bend was in much worse condition than it had been in many years.
- The Paducah Tobacco Plant declared the execution of John Ryan in Mayfield as “legal murder.” The Hickman Courier defended the court’s judgement as a deterrent to other “evil doers” and stated, “too few of such offenders are punished with death.”
- Henry Hold was elected as the President of the Murray Institute.
- There has been “intense excitement for several weeks” in Fulton as the Mississippi Central Railroad had surveyed routes in the vicinity and through the town.
- The Paducah Tobacco Plant enlarged and improved to become one of the largest newspapers in the State.
- Members of the Hickman and Madrid Bend Railroad and Levee Corporation held a mass meeting in Tiptonville, Tennessee to further promote the construction of a railroad and levee from Hickman to Tiptonville. Over one thousand people attended the rally on a very hot and humid day. Afterwards a committee was selected to canvass the region to sell stocks and receive subscriptions of lands for the project. Another meeting was scheduled to be held on August 17th at Tiptonville.
- The Troy Times criticized the Hickman Courier for meddling in Obion County politics by supporting R. D. Board as a candidate for the Tennessee General Assembly.
- The Dyer County Agricultural Fair was to be held in Dyersburg from October 15th to the 19th.
- Hog cholera proved to be more fatal in Dyer County, Tennessee than in years past.