Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-01-09

lrlenuS from interfering, the tW
combatants resumed the fight wit
their knives. Garth was wounde
In three places. The blood began
gush from his mouth and with ir
tense hatred he began slashing de-
perately at his opponent, who, wit
GOODNESS and remarkable skill de
tended himself from the strokes q
his opponents weapon. Sewers
more passes were made and Flour
noy made sweep that disembow
eled his adversary.
AT that moment a policeman
rushed up and arrested Flournoy
The officer also tried to take tn,
knife from Flournoy, but failed, fo
at that moment Eugene Garth RAJ
up and cried:
"You have killed my brother anc
l will kill you"
Waving his weapon over his heaC
young Flournoy replied:
81 will kill you if you come
nearer"
1t was then that Woods Garth
another brother of the wounded man
snapped his revolver at Flourroy
but the weapon failed to fire. Flour
noy was put in Jail and was bleeding
profusely from slight wounds from
Garth's knife. The news of the fight
spead like wild fire and soon hun
dreds OF students surrounded the
Jail. Many were admitted to sec
F1ournoy. Fourteen of his wounds
were In his left, or guard arm and
one in his back. His wounds were
not very serious. In two days he
was released, as it was proven that
ne was not the aggressOr. He recov.
ered from his wounds in a short
time.
Garth, meantime was lying at the
point of death, as he and the others
thought, and had declared his wish
that Flournoy be not prosecuted, as
the fight was fair one and he was
the aggressor. He lived many wears
afterwards, but never wholly recov-
cred from the effects of his wounds.
When informed of the difficulty
between his son and DIR. Flournoy
and the facts connected with it,
Garth's father, although his sons
life was despaired of, at once offered
himself as surety to prevent Flour
noy from being sent to prison.
Within two days after the difficulty
occurred DR.. Flournoy was sent for
by the wounded mans father and
was introduced to young Garth's
mother and other members of the
family and bond of friendship was
between the two antago-
nists with the family of one assem-
oled around what was thought to be
his deathbed. Garth recovered. but
has been dead for some years.
More than twenty years ago the
disease from which DIR. Flournoy
died developed as a result of the
wound which he received in the
bloody duel. For years he was an
invalid and appeared much older
than he really was. 1t was with
some difficulty that he related the
facts in this duel. He came of a
family who were strangers to fear.
During the first year of the late war
he was dashing captain Of the Char
lotte Cavalry and in the latter part
OF the war was field surgeon In the
Army of Northern Virginia. His
S-'N4 S"ohoS "oIo duOTUGu DV
the virtues that belonged to the men
who gave Virginia a distinct indi-
yiduality among the States of the
Union. His sufferings we're borne
tor twenty years without complaint.
Or. Flournoy, several years after
the war married Miss Bouldin, a
daughter of Judge Wood Bouldin,
of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
She died several years ago, leaving
three children - Misses Matte and
Fannie Flournoy and Thomas Flour
noy all of whom are now living.
We think the writer of the FORE
going errs in saying that DR.. Flour
noy was a Captsin of the Charlotte
Cavalry, though he may have been
an officer of the company when it
first went out from Charlotte
EDITOR.