Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from September 1, 1876 Several night robberies occurred the week prior in Hickman. Tom Buck and others were the known victims of the thefts. Fulton County Sheriff B. R. Walker brought four prisoners to the Kentucky State Penitentiary earlier in the week. It was reported that a party of individuals were “distributing documents to the colored people of Hickman” threatening “terrible butchery of negroes in the Southern States” if they voted in the upcoming election. The editor of the Hickman Courier responded by declaring “if the black people desire to vote the Republican ticket, let them…