Green’s Dictionary of Slang

caflugalty n.

also cafugelty
[? SE kerfuffle]

(US) a row, an argument.

[US](con. a.1900) DN IV 154: Cafugelty [...] Trouble; a row.
[US]J.L. Kuethe ‘Johns Hopkins Jargon’ in AS VII:5 330: Caflugalty — difficulty.