Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-01
The Recent HndIaa Battle

WASHINGTON, July 22.-Tbe following
telegram to General Sherman, dated Prcsidia,
Cal, July 20, was received ut the Var De.
partmcnt this morning:
Wheaton's telegrams condensed, say:
"On tho 18th instant Sanfcrd's cavalry and
Ncz Pcrco scouts, moving towards Meacham's
from La G'ando while the main column were
advancing from tho North, caused panic
am ong the hostics. Their trail from here is
strown for six miles with large quantities Of
provisions and, to them, valuable supplies
They had no time to gather and run of their
many ponies scattorod over tho country. At
my request, ninoty-seven Umatilas cnmo to
hop whip tho Bannocks and Snakes. They
brought in the head Of Eagan for idcntiiicas
ton. and ten seal ps. .Sovcn. tcnmstcrs have
bcon killed OH tho Wolf Crock road during
the last tiVo days The Umatila allies report
TINT tho hostilcs aro broaking up into small
parties and g!stA-:g off rs fast rs poss.oe,
evidently trying to got into tho Woisor
country. ! will so dispose Of my troors ~
to intercept any organized bands moving with
largo herds towards tho Weisor. | have
guards at Cayuse, Meacham's md Pelican,
and will escort tho mail coaches from In
Grande to the Umatila Agency until The road
is safer. I think tho Indications orc very
favorable. "McDowELL, Major Genoral."
York World snys TINT among tho patients in
Charity Hospital, on Blnckwclps Island, arc
two lcpcrs. One Of them is too sore to move
sayo whom it is positively necessary. The
other, although much furthor advanced in
tho disease, and almost sure to waste awny
within another year, is at present as lively as
cricket, although loathcd by the othor
patients. Those arc tho first lepers ever ad-
m'ttod to this hospital, and they havo been
thero only q short timo. Ono of them Abra.
hmm Brown, is New Yorker by birth, and
is native Of Santiago do Cuba, and only 10
years old Trcncl, has been afflicted about
iiVo years, and is now thought to DO in tho
last stages of tho disease, having occasional
foyors. Brown has tho disease in a moro
noutc form, and although it is less than two
years since he first entered the Baltimore
City Hospital, tho disease has so invaded his
whole body that he presents frightful
appearance. Ills hands and foot aro almost
black and covered with ulcers. His fingers
are enlarged to ncar)y tbreo times thoir former
size, 40 tho ends stand out like tho claws of
q fowl. His nails have fallen out Ills faco
is not so badly swollen, but his features have
an expression of despair that makes it painful
to look at him. Nearly all his beard has
fallen off, the hair Of his head is thin, dry and
lustorless, and the eyebrows are perfectly
baro. Around the iris of each oye ia on in
distinct light yollow ring about twelfth Of on
inoh in width, and tho peculiar loonino
appearance always noticeable in lepers is
we'll marked. Brown brought bis leprosy
from Cuba, whittier he went in 1885, remain.
ing there about nine years.
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!, WAsHfSoToN, July 25.--Oomm issioner
Ram consulted the President to-day regard
ing the revenue officials In South Carolina
indicted for killing Ladd. No action was
determined on. District Attorney Earle will
bo hore Saturday to oonfor with the depart.
nent on the case, Tt is intimated TINT tho
prisoners will be takon before tho United
States Court on awrit Of haboas corpus,