This Week 150 Years Ago

This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – August 10, 1872

August 10, 2022

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from August 10, 1872

  • Election Day in Hickman passed without any “serious affrays.” However, it was reported that the African American community was “noisy and fussy” and that law enforcement officers were used to establish order.
  • Over 1,400 men voted in Fulton County on Election Day, about 600 short of those registered.
  • John F. Tyler was elected Fulton County Sheriff and William H. Rakes as County Coroner.
  • William T. Lineback was elected Hickman City Marshal by a majority of fourteen votes.
  • Ed Crossland and John Martin, Sr., candidates for the district congressional seat, were scheduled to discuss political issues at the Fulton County Courthouse on August 12th.
  • Lucian Anderson, the “High Priest of Radicalism in the First District,” planned to deliver an address in Hickman on August 20th.
  • Hickman City Council met on August 7th to compensate city laborers and certify the election of the City Marshal.
  • The Hickman Minstrel troupe planned a concert for August 15th at Hickman City Hall.
  • The ladies of Hickman placed an add in the Hickman Courier declaring that “whiskey and wines” not be sold to men with families. If local distributors did not comply, they would confiscate bottles and let the “liquor float down the river.”
  • A Building Association was discussed among mechanics in Hickman to construct affordable housing to be owned by the Association.
  • Six men were awaiting trial in the Fulton County Jail.
  • The Superintendent of Public Instructions for Fulton County, Austin Tyler, announced a Teachers Institute would assemble on August 26th at the Rural Academy.
  • Caroline Dyer opened a hair dressing and manufacturing establishment on Jackson Street in Hickman.
  • Plaut & McCutchen’s began construction on a new warehouse in Hickman.
  • The members of the Poplar Grove Church near Hickman dug a well for church attendants and travelers.
  • John D. Henry, the oldest resident of Fulton County, died on August 9th at age seventy-seven. He was soldier in the War of 1812 and moved to the county in 1829.
  • Bill Plummer tore down his livery stable on Kentucky Street in Hickman.
  • Preparations were being made to pave Water Street in Hickman.
  • Markets in Hickman were overflowing with peaches.
  • John W. Mayes claimed he had the largest barrow in Fulton County, which he planned to show at the county fair.
  • The Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad agreed to assist in the construction of a rail line from Hickman to Charleston, Missouri.
  • Merchants in Clinton received a letter from the Mississippi Central Railroad Company that expressed intentions of constructing a rail line through the city.
  • John Huffman and his family were attacked at their home in Woodland Mills.
  • Lucy Cross Prather, wife of Tom Prather, died near Woodland Mills on August 9th.
  • Professor J. H. Hamilton took charge of the Clinton Seminary School.
  • The Fulton Fair was scheduled from September 24th to the 28th.
  • The Temperance Convention held in Fulton on August 3rd was well attended by eight lodges and numbered about 750 members. The only community in the Jackson Purchase that did not send a delegation was Clinton. The Tyler Lodge in Hickman was reported to have a membership of 133.
  • Democrats carried the City of Paducah on Election Day.
  • The Paducah & Memphis Railroad and the Elizabeth & Paducah Railroad planned to construct a depot in Paducah.
  • The tobacco crop in Calloway County was “Frenching” badly due to the long-wet spell in the region.
  • There was a large barbeque at Brookin Burnett’s near Feliciana on August 9th. The candidates for Congress made speeches.
  • M. Wilson of Obion County, Tennessee declared he would donate ten thousand acres of land to aid in the building of a levee from Hickman to Madrid Bend.
  • Crescent City was established in Obion County, Tennessee on the North shore of the Obion River near Palestine on the Paducah & Memphis Railroad.
  • John Mills was elected Attorney General of the Union City Judicial District.
  • A child was attacked by a hog in Troy, Tennessee and later died of the measles.
  • A man by the name of Buchanan robbed the Masonic Lodge in Troy, Tennessee.
  • The Trenton News reported there was man who resided in Gibson County, Tennessee that was 128 years old. The man stated he fought in the Revolutionary War in Marion’s Brigade.