Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-01
A W0MAN AVENGED.
The Shooting Of George =. LoBg, of
Tuscumbia, Alabama, by Ar. Sloss,
Member 6f Congress from
the District.
A Father AVenges the TrsauellOn Of his
Daughter by Disappointed suItor,
and is Very Generally In
dOrsed.


TUscUMBIA, June 2S.--Tuscumbia, if
we except Salem, down east bard by
Boston, is the oldest town 10 America.
II was finished, fenced in, and labeled
'idOne fOrv forty years ago. Thirty-five
years ago it was famed as a resort for
young ladies who proposed to shine in
fashionable life, but the polishing school
lost its sheen, and puseumbia had moth
ing left Of which it might boast, saveits
melodious Indian name, significant Of
the fiower-eiad forest that hedges in the
transparent waters of the Tennessee.
1t is as quiet a town of old, unDainted
dwellings and moss-eOvered roofs as one
will encounter anywhere ia the south.
The people walk about very slowly, and
have as little 10 do or think about as
denizens of Sleepy Hollow. They are
prayerful, church-going people, distin-
guished everywhere for intelligence,
good-breeding and good morals. When,
therefore, man is shot down on the
streets in Tuscumbia, absolute amaze
ment must possess everybody, and ex-
traordinary pTovoeation must have be-
gotten the dreadful deed.
TEE FACTS.
More than a yearago George F. Long,
of this place, began TO evince q show of
affection for Miss Sloss, the youthful
and attractive daughter Of the present
member Of congress from this district.
When Mr.. SlOss discovered the facts be
objected to any intercourse whatever
between his daughter and the young
gentleman. The latter was deeply in
censed, and accustOm I'd to denOunce
the father, and assert unworthy acts on
the part OF the darghter. His lar guage
4, 1t Nsa.aa.-
commonly know q, that the pretty girl
had withdrawn from society, and led 8
life of perfect seclusion. Meanwhile the
father was in Washington. He came
home Friday afternoon, and heard the
whole story from his family and friends.
Long was advised to leave Tuscumbia,
and said to-day, Just be ore ne was shot,
while sitting in front Of Aydlett's hotel,
that he "never expected to spend anOth-
er Sabbath in Tuscu nbia."
HE NEVER WILL.
Rising from his seat, he went into the
bar-room, drank glass of ale, and saun-
tered along leisurely down the side
walk. He turned to the right, and
was going toward his home, and at the
very instant that he touched his hat
and bowed to a friend approaching him
a gun was fired from the second story
window of WarTen's store, on the OppO-
size side of the street, and Long fell,
two buck-shOt penetrating his boiy, one /
passing through his neck, but failing to
touch the artery, and fourth entering
the skull just behind the left ear. He /
fell, bleeding profusely. Even now a 1
broad, blackened mark Of blood extends |
across the brick sidewalk, and stains the 4
sand in the gutter. Long was soon re- |
moved to his home, and DR.. Abernathy /
and other surgeons sent FOR, but their I
skill can avail nothing. The young man /
is surely dying. He said just now that /
he thought he was shot by young War |
ren, a nephew Of Colonel SlOss, but |
since it was Colonel SIoss himself, it was |
"all right" Nothing could justify |
Longs assaults upon the girls honor, |
and
NO ONE CONDEMNS COLONEL sLOss.
The manner of killing is generally /
djsapproved. Iheard it commonly said 1
that il the deed had been done the day |
Colonel Sloss reached home, there |
would have been never s question as to !
the propriety of his conduct. He had /
the perfect right, it is argued, and prop |
erly, to regard the man q savage wild !
beast who traducad his daughter, and If /
he killed Long as soon as he was salts /
fed the girl had been assailed by the 4
breath of slander, there is an end Of it. /
In any event Sloss need never fear a |
jury, one of its members having /
daughter. II SlOss had taken the gun /
into the street aud gone through the 1
form of telling Long to "defend" him
self there would never have been even 1
the form of trial. But we cam reason
about a matter Of this sort. He who 4
wrongs woman's fame deserves death,
and that's the proper verdict Of juries
and of mankind. Mr.. Long was often
told that he should leave Tuscumbia be-
fore Sloss came home. He had at
length agreed to go away, and in this
he confessed his guilt aud admitted the
propTiety of Colonel SlOss's conduct.
Long was wholly fearless, and it was
only because urged to do so by his
friends, Of whom he has many here, that
he had consented to leave Tuscumbia.
His father and kindred are excellent
people, and it is only said Of the young
man and in derogatiOn of his worth that
he had been 3 village idler for some
months. An idler will talk too much,
and it he habitually air his elOquence in
front of the corner grocery there is often
death and dsmnation in very innocent
words that bubble up from fountains OF
whisky.
LONG NAY DIE
within the hour in which he was shot,
and within which TINS is most hurriedly
written, ana he may survive one or
two, or even three days. No vital organ
IS touched, but de ne must. Such
wounds in such weather NUT prove
fatal Colonel Sloss is in charge Of the
sheriff and one OF bis deputies occupies
the room from which he fired upon
Long.
A BLOODY SPOT.
desperate uuvuz nave uIsJIuguIsned
the spot whereat Long fell. Bayless
Morton, even there, on the self-same
sidewalk, shot SIr. Henderson; a negro
was killed on the same identical spot,
and a man was stabbed to death one
hundred yards away, and the bloody
knife of the assassin was found hardly.
These were incidents of the devilish
period of internal Reconstruction" ;" and
II IL nrIv sinuulor that fa1l ~, fbfS .