Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from April 4, 1874 The Mississippi River was reported receding and that farmers in the lowlands could “now consider themselves pretty safe, but not altogether so.” A heavy frost on the morning of April 2nd damaged many fruit trees in the region. A man and his wife were knocked unconscious in their home on Pine Steet in Hickman, when the man used a gun that had not been fired for over eight years from his window. He and his wife were propelled into the hearth of the fireplace where he suffered a dislocated shoulder and…