Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from November 3, 1876 On October 27th, the residence of W. T. Buckner of Hickman was broken into, and $104 and various other valuables were stolen. The robbers were discovered by Buckner’s daughter, who sounded the alarm. The thieves ran from the house and escaped into the night. Buckner briefly pursued them but never came close enough to identify them. Upon returning to the house, he found several cotton rags saturated with chloroform. Mrs. Buckner was reported to have been “suffering from the effects of it.” At the time of publication, the robbers had not been…

Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from October 20, 1876 A tightrope walker by the name of Professor Bond performed to a large crowd in Hickman on the evening of October 18th. The wire was suspended between the offices of the Hickman Courier and the Dolly Varden Building. Congressman Joe Blackburn, of Ashland, was the keynote speaker at both the Hickman City Hall and the Fulton County Courthouse on October 16th. An enthusiastic crowd listened to his “severe criticism, arraignments and denunciations” of the Republican Party. It was reported that his “speeches done great good” for the Democrats in the county. Fulton…