Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from December 14, 1872
- The Hickman City Council sought plans to create a fire department and ordered five ladders and other equipment. The Council also considered an amendment to the city charter to permit the city to issue stock in the proposed levee and railroad from Hickman to Tiptonville, Tennessee.
- The Hickman & Charleston Railroad Extension was promoted by the editor of the Hickman Courier and encouraged businessmen in both communities to work together on the proposed project.
- Members of the Hickman Order of Good Templars proposed to give an “exhibition” during the Christmas holidays, consisting of “charades, tableaus and songs” to be held at the old seminary building.
- The bookstore of J. H. Davis received a delivery of popular new music from the publisher J. L. Petters of New York.
- Oscar Turner, of Hickman, traveled to St. Louis to treat a badly wounded leg.
- P. Caldwell, member of Congress from the 8th Tennessee District, visited Hickman earlier in the week to discuss the levee and railroad between Hickman and Tiptonville.
- The Fulton County Court met for its December term with Judge John W. Wingate presiding.
- The Fulton County Agricultural & Mechanical Association planned to meet on December 21st to consider abolishing entry fees for exhibitors during the annual county fair.
- Epizootic was prevalent in the counties of Fulton and Hickman. The citizens of Ballard County would not allow horses affected with epizootic to enter the county. Horses being transported by steamboat were reported shot at a point opposite Metropolis, Illinois to prevent further spread of the disease.
- A. Jones, of Cayce’s Station, was appointed as Surveyor of Fulton County after the resignation of A. E. Brevard.
- The dry goods business of Solomon & Aikens at Jordan Station was destroyed by fire on December 11th.
- The Columbus Dispatch reports that large landowners in Ballard County have filed appeals to contest the construction of the Mississippi Central Railroad in the county.
- The Paducah Tobacco Plant called for a State Convention to remodel the State constitution, declaring the “instrument a little obsolete.”
- A lunatic asylum to be established in Western Kentucky was expected to be “actively pressed” during the next meeting of the State Legislature.
- Aaron Hicks, a “pauper lunatic” from Cadiz, died in the Trigg County jail after a “fit of epilepsy.” He had been confined for nearly a year awaiting admittance to a State asylum.
- The Nashville & Chattanooga and Northwestern Railroad Companies agreed to equip the branch road from Fulton to Huntingdon, Tennessee.
- John T. Fuqua, of Hickman, died on December 10th from an affliction he had for many years. Fannie Lee Shuck, age 6 of Fulton County, died on December 8th at the residence of her grandfather Andrew Shuck.