DESPERATE DUEL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 292, 3 October 1874, Page 3

DESPERATE DUEL.

" One of the most desperate duels on record " was, according to the ' Jackson Whig and Tribune,' fought the other evening in Tennessee, in the streets of Cotton Grove, a village eight miles east of Jackson, between two men named Patterson and Sellars. The difference arose out of " a suit of clothes.'.' Paterson, it seems, on the 28th of May, bought a new suit of clothes, and on the following Sunday morning Sellars, who lived in the same house, asked permission to " try them on." Patterson objected, snatching the clothes away, and denouncing Sellar's conduct as ungentlemanly. After some further altercation a duel was decided on as the best method of adjusting the quarrel. On the Tuesday evening, accordingly, the two antagonists met in the streets of Cotton Grove, Sellars armed -with a doubled- barrelled f.hot gun and two single-barrelled pistols, and. Paterson with " a navy six." When within thirty yards of each other both came to a halt, Sellars levelling his gun and ordering Patterson to throw down his pistol. Patterson refused to comply with this request, but accommodated Sellars to a certain extent by firing at him and wounding him. Sellars then attempted to fire his double-barrelled gun, but both barrels snapped. Patterson fired again. Sellars then advanced steadily, throwing down his and relying on his pistols, with one of which he wounded Patterson in the right side. Patterson " again opened rapidly," striking Sellars twice, making three times in all. Sellars then fell from los» of blood, and Patterson walked away, believing him to be dead. Sellars, however, was not quite dead; he had only one ball in his body, which cannot be found; another entering his right temple had come out behind his right ear; and a third, passing through bis upper lip, had lodged in his gums. He is, therefore, not much the worse for the encounter, although the ball in his body gives his friends some uneasiness. Since the duel Patterson has had the good taste to remain in seclusion.—' Pall Mall Gazette.'