Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-24
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD.1
Horrible Indian 0utrages on the
Rio Grande.
A Curious. Case Before the Commits
si0ner of Pensions.
EASTERN NEWS.
Indian Outrages.

cial dispatch from San Antonio to a
New Orleans paper gives the following
extract from letter just received by
Genera, Or' frcm Presi,ien' Del Norte
of the lao Grande: "Four Indians
came in on foot to the Merito ranch,
twenty-four miles from here, and cap
tured the place. Two men, two women
and two children were captured, to-
gether with one thousand head of
sheep. In their retreat the Indians
killed one of the men, and few hours
later one of the women. When they
found they were pursued, they killed
the other man. The woman they got
off with was pregnant. She was the
wife of the last man killed. The dead
bodies were found on the trail. The
Indians escaped.
The Negro PlOtters.
SAVANNAH, Ga, August 23d.-Gov.
Smith and staff left Sandersville, Ga,
for Atlanta on Sunday. There were
seven ringleaders and most of the
officers of the company are under
guard at Waynesboro and Meadville.
Among the prisoners at Waynesboro
are Capt. Nelson Brown, Secretary,
and VIM. Thomas, President of the
Society.
A CuriOus Case
WASHINGTON, August pa rather
curious case was before the Commits
sioner of Pensions to-day for his de-
cision. A woman who had been mar
ried and whose husband deserted her
in 1860, was married again in 1862 to
another man without actual divorce,
although the law of Tennessee makes
desertion for two years good grounds
for divorce. The second husband be-
came soldier and died in 1865. The
Legislature of Tennessee, in 1878,
passed an act legalizing the latter
marriage and the woman now comes
forward as an applicant for pension,
as the widow of soldier husband.
The Commissioner holds that, as the
first parties had not been divorced at
the time of the death of the soldier,
when the claim occurred, the woman
was not the lawful wife of the soldier,
and the act of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture being retroactive, is unconstitu-
tional, and would be void if it applied
to the claim.
River Report.
WASHINGTON, August 23d. = The
Signal Office furnishes the following
special river report to-day: During the
last twenty-four hours the Ohio river
has fallen five inches at Pittsburg, %
inches at Cincinnati, SO inches at Pa
ducah. The river will continue to fall
during Tue sday and Wednesday. The
Mississippi river has fallen four inches
inches at st. Louis, 81 inches at Cairo,
II inches at Memphis and one inch at
Helena, where the water is now forty
feet and one inch deep. 1t has been
stationary but is now rising at Vicks-
burg and its depth is forty feet and
ten inches. The river will fall slowly
at all stations during the day. The
Cumberland and Red rivers have
fallen slowly at all stations. Light
rains have fallen in the Lower Mis-
souri, valley and in the valley of the
Red River.
The Special Pouch System.
WASHINGTON, August 23d. - The
success which has attended the intro
duction of through registered letter
pouches on the main route between
Boston and San Francisco has been
highly gratifying to the department.
Arrangements are now in progress for
the application of the other large
offices on this route. The route be-
tween Boston and New Orleans will
shortly be arranged to meet the de-
mands of a number of the principal
commercial points in the South. Spe-
cial pouches adapted to this service
are being manufactured.