Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from November 16, 1872
- The final tally for the First Congressional District seat was – Crossland, 10,059, Houston, 1,799, Trabue, 2,215, and Martin, 1,432.
- The Democrats won nine of the ten Congressional seats in Kentucky.
- Following the results of the national elections, the editor of the Hickman Courier wrote: “If the Northern mind is prejudiced against the old party because of old war positions, we must by wise and just laws, where we have power, and by wise and prudent policies, where the power is against us, overcome these prejudices, and let the Northern Conservative people learn of a fact and reality, that we have been sinned against.” He also declared, “we trust the Republicans of this District may never have another such opportunity to elect a member of their party to Congress in this District.”
- Hickman City Council met on November 14th to settle accounts and grant a Coffee House License to Steagala & Lane for six months.
- Lun Dozier cut the throat of W. A. Underwood in Hickman on the night of November 12th. The cut was so severe it nearly severed the head from the body. Both men were believed to have been intoxicated at the time.
- H. Plaut & Brothers completed construction on an “extensive warehouse” in Hickman and opened its business for storage of “all kinds of produce.”
- The Fulton County Fair Commission reported an income of $1,680.75 and disbursements of $1,657.45 from the 1872 annual fall fair.
- The Fulton County Court met in Hickman for its November term.
- The Good Templars met at Ebenezer Church near Cayse’s Station on November 1st. W. B. Gore was elected President, Mrs. C. M. Reeves, Vice President, L. J. Burton, Chaplain, T. E. Gleeson, Secretary and Charlie Reeves, Marshal. The next meeting was be held in Hickman in April of 1873.
- Reverend L. S. Burton was scheduled to deliver a lecture on temperance in Hickman on November 23rd.
- Six cases of smallpox were reported in Columbus.
- The Paducah Tobacco Plant reported that a man was murdered near Moscow and the killer captured. The murderer was in the Hickman County Jail in Clinton at the time of publication. The names of the parties involved were not listed.
- The Mayfield Democrat thanked Lucien Anderson for liberating a Mr. Colley from confinement in the Graves County Jail. Anderson traveled to Washington D.C. where he received a full pardon for Colley from President Grant. Colley allegedly was charged with a violation of the revenue law.
- The South Western Kentucky Medical Association held a convention in Paducah on November 17th and 18th. The next meeting was to be held in Mayfield on the third Monday in May of next year.
- Lenard G. Faxton became one of the editors and proprietors of the Paducah Tobacco Plant.
- John A. Board was elected as a member of the Tennessee State Legislature from the counties of Obion and Lake. He was considered a candidate for the Speaker of the House.
- The Medical Society of West Tennessee planned to meet on December 3rd in Union City, Tennessee.
- A petrified fish, nineteen inches long, was found in Dyer County, Tennessee.
- R. Marrs of Fulton and Fannie E. Mason of Ballard were married on November 5th in Ballard County.