This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – September 22, 1876

This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – September 22, 1876

• The residence of Dr. R. C. Prather, owned by Thomas Jones, was destroyed by fire on September 17^th. Fortunately, the home was insured for $1,000. The residencies of John Talley and Carter Blanton also caught fire but thanks to the efforts of their neighbors the homes were saved.
• Hickman Mayor J. H. Davis, after an absence of several weeks, underwent medical treatment and had displayed improving health.
• Jewish citizens of Hickman celebrated the Jewish New Year on September 19^th.
• Samuel S. French, agent for Thorne’s Comedy Troupe, were scheduled to perform at the Hickman City Hall for a week’s engagement beginning on September 25^th.
• The Hickman City Council met on September 18^th, where they agreed to except the bid of Dan Steele to begin construction on the West Hickman levee. He was to receive one-third in cash as the worked progressed and the balance to be paid with city checks when completed.
• W. Bagby, First Congressional District Republican Party Elector, and C. T. Allen, First Congressional District Democratic Party Elector, held a debate in Hickman on September 15^th. Allen offered facts, arguments, and figures with “earnest eloquence,” while Bagby retorted with wit, humor and anecdotes.
• All political meetings and speaking engagement were suspended in Fulton County until the conclusion of the County Fair next week.
• The First Congressional District Democratic Convention was scheduled to be held on September 27^th in Paducah. The number of county delegates to vote were Graves, 21, Ballard, 14, Calloway, 12, McCracken, 13, Hickman, 9, Fulton, 7, Marshall, 9, Caldwell, 10, Trigg, 13, Livingston, 9, Crittenden, 8, and Lyon 6. Sixty-six votes were needed for the nomination.
• Rumors spread in Western Kentucky that Radical Republicans were “colonizing crowds of Kentucky negroes in Indiana” to vote the Republican ticket in the October election.
• The Paducah Herald reported that Susan Barlow of Ballard County was in the possession of a “mad stone” which had “cured several persons” bitten by rabid dogs.
• The Obion County, Tennessee convention overwhelmingly supported William P. Caldwell for Congress in the Eighth District.
• It was reported that young man in Troy, Tennessee broke into the Catholic Church and had pilfered the communion wine.