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z The seven Bibles of tho world arc the
Koran of the Mohammedans, tho Eddas OF
Of the SoandinaviaDs, tho Try Pitikes OF
the Buddhists, tho Five Kings of tho
Chinese, the three Wedas of the Hindoos,
the Zendavesta, and the Scriptures of Chris
tians. The Koran is the most recent of
these sovou Bibles, and not older than the
seventh century of our era. 1t is com.
pound of quotations from tho Old aud Now
Testaments, the Talmud, and tho Gospel of
st Barnanas. The Eddas, of the Scondina.
vians were first published in tho 18th cen
tury. Tho Pisikes of the Buddhsts contain
sublime morals and pure aspirations, but
their author lived and died in the sixth cen.
tury before Christ. There is nothing of
excellence in those sacred books not found
in the Bible The sacred writings of tho
Chinese are called the Five Kings, 'lsing"
meaning web Of cloth or tho wrap that keeps
the thread in thcir place. They contain
the best sayings of the best sagcs on the
ethic political duties of lifo. These sayings
cannot be traced to period higher than
the eleventh century B. G. The three
Vodas are the most ancient books of the
Hindoos, and it is the opinion of Max
Muller, Wilson, johnson and Whitney
that they are not oldor than eleven centuries
3. O. The Zcndavesta of the Persians is
the grandest of all the sacred books, next
to our Biblo. Ioroaster, whose sayings it
contains, was born in tho twelfth century
B. @. Moses lived and wrote his Pcnta-
teuoh fifteen centuries B g., aud therefore
has clear margin of 800 years oldor than
the most ancient of tho other sacred writings.
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On and after Monday, November g.,
1880, tho Passenger Trains over the Green
vile aud Columbia Railroad will bs run
daily, Sundays excepted:
MAIN STEM.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-12-02
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
CHANGE OF sOHEDULE,

On and after Monday, November 8,
1880, tho Passenger Trains over the Green
Vile aud Columbia Railroad will bs run
daily, Sundays excepted:
MAIN STEM.
UP.
Leave Columbia at IL 25 a IN
aston at IL 45 p m
Nowberry at l 8Op m
Hodges at 58 ~
Delton at IL p m
Arrive at Groenville G 20 y n,
DOWN.
Leave Greenvillo at 10 IS a m
Belton at IL Is p nj
Hodges at 30 M
Newoerryat 4 II m
Aston ut % p N
Arrive at Columbia Is n m
ANDERSON BRANCH AND BLUE RIDGE r.. r.
Daily, except Sundays, between Bolton,
Anderson and Walhalla, as follows:
Leave Belton at 12 n RI
Anderson at s So p IN
Pendlcton Mt 6 81 n m
Icrryv'lle ot 81 p IN
Seneca 32 n NJ
Arrive at Walhalla at S O3 p NJ
Leave Walhalla at 25 m
Seneca City 10 OF NJ
pcrryville ut 10 10 n NJ
Pcndicton at 10 DO m
Anderson ut IL "a n m
Arrive at Bolton l2 OF n NJ
EXTRA TRAIN FROM BELTON TO
ANDERSON-D
Leave bcton IL 35 p m
Arrive at Anderson lis p NJ
Leave Anderson 4 90 p m
Arrive at Belton S 10 q m
Laurens Branch Trains leave Laurcns c. ii. a,
7 90 a. m. and leave Newbcrry 1000 a. M. on
every day, Sunday excepted.
Abbcvi!lo Branch Train connects at Hodges
with down and up train daily, SUNDAYS OK.
ccptcd. Leave Abbcyillc at S.55 a. NJ; Leave
Hodges OF $50 p. NJ.
Up and down Traius on the main stem
make close connection at Columbia with the
up and down day passenger Trains on the
South Carolina Railroad and with the
through Freight Traius, with Passenger Car
attached, on tho Wilmington, Columbia
aud Augusta Railroad, and at Alstoa will,
tho trains of the Spartanburg, Uniou ona
Columbia Railroad for Union, Spnr,anburg.
llcndersonvillc, AShcville, &c, &c.
j. w. FRY,
General Superintendent
j. p. MEREDITH, Master Transportation.
a. POPE, General Passenger Agent.
Atlanta and Charlotte AIRLINE Railway
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT..
ATLANTA, Ga, November 6, 1880.
CLLiNGE or SCyIEDCLE.
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WhjI Ii T. @ & Act .r.,Eghct- sell Tt, ctH c.t,.,
tNnny EtraciS. hy
f'"' t't oh ff'~ rEoriES TEA CO, Gl. 81 Ir. NO.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09

condensed milk, and to Kansas for butter
so California furnishes Us with honey. As
soon as refrgerating cars are perfected we
will send all beef cattle to st. Louis, pay for
their killing and have their fresh beef
shipped back to our tables. Why
not We send hides to Massachusetts
tanneries, and cotton to England to be turned
into leather and shirts, and why not cattle?
There is just as much economy in it as bring
ing honey from California, and we insist
upon consistency in all things. 1t is true
we don't bring post-hoes from New York,
but we do get augurs there to bore them in
our ground. If New York had the holes for
sale we would buy them, for don't we raise
the cotton to pay for them? Of course we
do. There is an old adage, however, that
Fools build houses for wise men to live in"
The cunning Yankee, with much poorer
country, has grown rich off the South. He
did it BY supplying those thousand little
things we make no effort to produce. lie
says, "Ten mills make one cent, Ten cents one
dime, ten dim some dollar" We say, "0ne
bale of cotton is equal to $50" AS Heaven
notes every sparrow that falls so our economy
should include the small things sent by
heaven to make our happiness.
"rhere are books IN running brooks,
Se'inonsln sIOtes, gO' In everything"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
How 10 Kill Ants.

We are often asked tor remedy. So
have all the dead generate ms in the ground.
No one has as yet answered satisfactorily.
There are numberless poisons that will kill
as many as touch them, but they are the
costliest of all drugs and cannot be used
universally. The ants are the most prolific
of crawlers, as the Bible gives them credit
for the most industrious thing in the world,
holding up the ant and the ant alone in all
its metaphors and SMILES when teaching
habits of industry, and not abiding to the
bee in that connection at all.
have tried many remedes-ashes, salt,
brine and even burned a log heap upon the
large, red ant hill, all to no purpose. Kill
one and hundred will come TO its flu.
neral. Not many weeks since | took
a pbial of laudanum with a
spoonful of sugar held in solution in it, and
poured it down small hill. l have not
seen an ant at the hill since The laudanum
of course will kill them, but it is an expen-
sive remedy. / should have perhaps stated
the sugar was for the purpose of inducing
them to swallow the poison. Plans for kill
ing ants are as plentiful as remedies for cy-
clones, and ali worth an equal amount
nothing.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
The Vito md the Ohicken.

At least dozen different species of mites
infest domestic fowls. Their chief bushes.
is to force you to keep your chcken-house:
clean. Almost any kind of oil or grease
snuff or other narcotic, will kin them. After
thoroughly cleaning the house, sprinkle the
floor and nests, and wherever else it will stick
with sulphur. Mix it with wood ashes, and
also put il where your fowls
take their dust batch. This
will put an end to mites and keep them of
until your house again gets 50 filthy the mites
can breed and take shelter in it. But, MS
stated last week, you don't want to 90 to
this trouble knock some of the boards from
the roof and let some of the rains in. II
your chickens are not too near dead that may
restore their health. Perhaps it would be
economy to burn the hen-house down-mtes
and ALL
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
AGRICULTURAL.

THE FIELD, GARDEN AND STABLE
--<uN-
The Cultivation of Tobacco -" water,
Water Everywhere and Not II Drop
to Drink''-''Study the ways of
the Ant''-FIayOrin. Plum
Trees with SaIt-GOOd in
Every thing--Thc Grand
Gold Mines In Texas
Sheep Ranches.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09

Two years ago the writer spent August
and September at rancho in Hays county.
The only never-failing spring in eight miles
around was on it. Day after day water carts
would arrive, beginning about nine in the
morning and ending at dusk, from that
spring. 1t WAS poor AZ that. Questioning
be found that they came two, five ard eight
miles, and consumed half the day in the trip
"Why don't you dig wells at your place"
was asked several. The reply was, 81 have
gone down seventy-hve and ninety feet, and
others one hundred, without getting water.
"Then why don't you dig cisterns and catch
ran-water ?" "Don't know anything abou.
them things, besides don't like rain water
it amt fit for dog to drink"
The first part is proven true by the latter
half of tn reply for all that is pure comes
from above us, and all that is foul and vile
from below. In natures processes of evap-
clouds, even oceans water is shorn
of its salt and all saline matter
left behind. AS il comes from the pure sky
il is the purest water in the world, and,
therefore, the hcalthiest. Whilst our
springs and wells are more or less impree-
mated with dead and decaylng vegetable and
animal matter, this is not the case in the els
tern, whose water come in contact with moth
ing save the roof of the house and the tin or
wooden piping.
But the time consumed each week by one
of my Hayes county friends hauling water
would dig and wall with rock cistern large
enough to hold enough TO supply his family
and stock 40 months with all they needed.
The only expense lac would be ut would bea
barrel or two of Portland cement and the
hire of man To put il on, if he did not feel
competent to do that simple job himself In
raising the water he could either use the
bucket or incur the additional expense of "
pump. In conducting tho water from his
house, he could either make troughs Of plank
or buy tin guttering at the store; either will
answer for all practical purposes. Ia this
way II cistern Of enormous capacity can be
made nj cash outlay of from
So to $25 And suppose we have two-one
for $50 for family use and larger one Mt the
stable for S25 fer the horses and cattle. There
IS no farmer without supply of water the
year round who cannot afford to have them,
,ven if he has to haul water no farther than
one mile, and for only one month, leaving
he matter of health out ofthe calculation. A
citizen of city has not the time to walk one
block for it.
There is another error about the differ
,nce In the temperature Of rainwater caught
n summer and that in winter-the former
generally supposed TO be the highest or
yarmest SO it is, but not longer than three
II four days, for if the mean temperature of
Inc earth surrounding the cisternls, say 60
leurees. the water will quickly assimiate to
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
The Honey Bee,

1t would be impossible to find in all the
world country so naturally adapted to bee
culture "a Texas. 1t has SO many flowers
from which to extract its honey, flowers
growing wild in the prairie and woods and
found around every house, that they have
little labor in performing their task. And
then the summers are so long that they have
ample time to I'LL their gums two and three
times year. In the cotton States such little
things are despsed, and, with the garden,
orchard, vineyard and dairy, condemned as
"piddling"-that is, fooling away time upon
matter too small to pay. But, sir does a
bee rob YOU of much timer After preparing
him gum and bench upon which to SIT,
does he interfere with your work in the cot
ton field? He does not unless you count the
five or ten minutes you devote to robbing
him of the fruits Of his labor. With us it is
cotton, cotton, cotton (; contempt for every
thing else. The old King allows us
no time to work for victuals and
clothes. This may sound strange but it
Is true, for upon how many tables do we
find in the country anything to
cat except bacon, bread and coffee Z
We may find few with milk, still less with
butter, and fewer still with any of the hundred
kinds of vegetables which grow to such great
perfection'in Texas. AS farmer can exc
out some kind of hard existence without
them they are rejected as unworthey of at
tention, and a few more acres of cotton
planted instead
And yet his appetite Graves all these as
his health does. Aside from furnishing his
quota to your table, the bee will be source
OF income. His product is saleable at every
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09

cut by splitting the stalk from top to within
two inches of the bottom, then the stalk is
severed near the ground, so fork will be
formed to admit of hanging upon tho sticks
which rest upon the beams in the barn.
Thus housed green, trenches must be dug
in the dirt floor Of the barn and fires built in
them. Fire-smoke, and heat from these fires,
cures the tobacco as meat is cured, and is as
absolutely necessary. When dry it is as
nearly infamable as cotton and Us great care
should be taken as when carrying fire about
gin house, and yet you can cure it in no
other way.
When fully cured it is stripped from tho
stalk, assorted, compressed into hogsheads
and sent 10 the manufacturer and to market.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF the
DALLAS & WICHITA RAILROAD.

Notice is given to all concerned that on ruesSsg.
the 18th day OfJune next, and from day to dl.s
thereafter, until the business is completed, / viii
proceed to take proofs and hear evidence of nj
matters referred TO me, as special master by thr'
decree, In the case of Allen Il Nettleton Vs.. fhr
Dallas Il Wichita Railroad Co., ct al, inciusiHT
the Indebtedness Of said Railroad Company, Sc
cured by its mortgage bonds and incurred in ihr
way ofcosts and expenditures in above cass AB
persons interested In said matters are notified ~
appear before me with their proofs ON said date
and from day to day AS the hearing may be aa-
journed, ut the law Office of MessrS. Wellhnrh.
Lease & Henry, in the city of Dallas
j, ADAMS, Special Master
Dallas, May 20, 1850. 4,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
SnIt fNrPlun IrnGs

A farmers wife SAYS to the Country
Gentleman that she washed the trunks and
sprinkled the branches of plum trees with
fish and cucumber brine to kill insect,
which were DESTROYING them. She found
the remedy an effective one, and for the
last two years the trees have borne full crops
She was fighting what is called in New
York "thc black knot which is death to
plum and cherry trees. There are worm.
and insects that tatten on salt.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
EAERVFGW
Mineral Springs
Two miles Southwest of
Two miles Southwest of

hosse, 'FErsan
Analyzed by Prof, {. = Chandler Caa,n,s.
and Assayer of the Scho0i of Mines, Co,uual!.
College, New York.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
The Antand the Parasite.

The ant is of some use after all. Those
that visit your pear trees are probably after
some parasites, and are doing the tree no in
jury, but on the other hand, protec ting the
fruit. The cause of plums falling off is the
fruit. These grubs are the larv~ of the com,
mon plum curculio, rough-backed snout
beetle. They ARE common all over the coun-
try, and the real cause of so few plums com
ing to market
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
Truck Farming

w -. =,
we nave many truck farms around The
Guy, put ll'at mere are not nan enough Is
SHOWN oy tne frequent scarcity OF tnelr pro
uuc's IN th's llarNes mus 10 we iihu next
70 nothing no, Lor SAFE ior many months OF the
year, ana nus no we nnu u great qeai we
eohsu.ne Oh tne llsh'er articles OF 'aoIe del-
leseles Drought oV r me railways from Nan
sas ana missouri arIicles whl'h grow Iuxu'
riantiy IN our SOIL, ana 10 the greatest posi-.
Die perleclioh: ms Is false economy and
grows rom Gistrac'loh ABOUT cotton. In
stead Oh our puylhg vegetables ana irult, put.
Yer ana eggs from 0lher states, we should
nave surplus TO snip them every season
keirgeratlng cars now make 1t possible for
even morning glory 70 90 sent rom Dallas
70 OhlSago without wliting' Inc tempera-
lure OF THESE cars can DO reduced to the
freezing point II necessary Then what
prevents Texas from supplying those
coid states win vegetable for at
least Two months OF tho early spring, for
ours rlpen that much IN advance OF theirs.
L uS AsuIuois vi ana missouri are
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
HOW Great Fortunes are = AIDE in
ShCNp Raising im EcNMs

The San Antonio Express has been talking
with Captain b. l.. Crouch, sheep raiser Of
Frio county. captain c." Gust after the
wary "hred out to man IN Williamson
county for SIP a month, or, ut that time,
about 50 in silver. He gained his EMPLOYERS
confidence and after awhile purchased 500
head of his sheep. This was his start. Gag
tain Crouch is to-day located in Frio county,
and hardly has a peerin the West MS a sheep
raiser and stock man. His pasture fence is
one hundred and four miles in length, and
encloscs one hundred and thirty thousand
acres. In this pasture he has fourteen thou
sand head of sheep, and from its nutritious
grasses from twelve to fourteen thousand
head of cattle ARE wintered. He Cas the finest
hocks in the West, and sold about thirty
thousand pounds of wool this spring for
sold. Captain Crouch furnishes his neigh
bors and sheep men of the West generally,
with bucks for breeding purposes, selling
them when quite young at from six to eight
dollars per head. He does not beg this Gus
tom but it comes to an extent that he can
not meet. lie never has had trouble in SELL
ing his wool at from twelve to
six months in advance. In q
COuNeIsdIlon WIFI our reporter yeSter-
day. Capt Crouch said that there was no
longer any doubt about Western Texas being
u good sheep country. Results in the bust
ness had been as fair here us any reasonable
man could ask for. Having travelled over
the United States, he felt qualified to say
there was no part of the country, neither any
business, in which men could do better than
in this country in the sheep business. All
kinds of stock did well here, and investments
could not but pay where there was any judg-
ment or energy exercised. Taking as the
basis of an average the prices paid for sheep
and wool, and the general expenses, the past
five years, he believes the sheep bushes.
should 2ring any competent man sixty per
cent. on his investment. Incompetent man
agement might reduce this profit very con-
sidersbly, while extraordinary good luck
would raise it. Capt. Crouch cited an
instance in which one OF his neighbors Mr..
Baldwin, had transcribed his expectations in
point of success. Mr.. Baldwin, out of an
investment of $4,000 five years ago, had ac.
sumulated property until he was worth to-
day upward of $4,000. He came TO Texas
from California to make money and had
succeeded"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09

Es@REWARE or persons who may CLAIM
to be Agents for the sale 0fPetors Colony,I,aaGs
and OF tn sc who disparage their title ami -
other ways, only TO defeat your choice and pSs'~
vent you buying them, in order to sell oihe5
lands to you IN
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-09
THE HERALDAND COMMERCIAL
.oEnTs ANo BRANCH OFFICES.

l. The following partie are Agents and have
I,sharge of branch Offices of Tue HERALD
Sat the /Dlaces named, to solicit snb-
scriptons and make contractsior advertise
ments for this paper and 70 collect and receipt
for he same: NkNA
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-30
Not INDICATED.

The Republican National Committee 8
address OF congratulation to their party
on the victory of Indiana and Ohio
says: 1.-The result in each State. and
especially in Ohio, is the conclusive
answer of the people to the false and
malignant assaults upon the personal
character of our candidate for Presi-
dent, which have thus far been the
principal weapons Of our opponents"
Now let the facts be stated, or rather
restated. 1.-The false and malignant as
saults upon the character of our candi-
date for President" refer to these I'M
fortunate transactions in Credit Mobilier
dividends and DeGoyler wood pave
ment in which ''our candidate for Presi-
dent involved himself. But the as
sault did not come from Democrats; they
came from the Republicans. The
Credit Mobilier business and Mr.. Gar
fields connection Herewith were
brought out by Republican Investigat-
ing Committee appointed by Re-
publican House; this Committees re-
port was virtual condemnation of Mr..
Garfield, and the force of it was material
ly augmented by the comments of the
New York Tribune and Times, the Gin
cinnati Commercial and several leading
New England papers, all Republican,
and by a meeting of Mr.. Garfield's own
Republican constituents in his Con-
gressional District, demanding his
resignation. AS to the DE Golyer trans
action it was brought to light by
Democratic House it is true, but the
facts that were most damaging to Mr..
Garfield in it were gathered from Mr..
Garfield's own testimony.
1t may be that the Republican
triumph in Ohio and Indiana is ''con-
elusive answer" to these assaults made
by Republican press, but it may still
be asserted that there is not an in
telligent, respectable Republican in
either Ohio or Indiana who is not
ashamed of the admitted facts in Mr..
connection with both these
Louis Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-10-30
The Duty Of Democrats.

The Demo Gratis have lost Ohio, which
they did not expect to win, and they
have lost Indiana, which they did expect
to win. This is the situation in its worst
phase. What shall the losers do about
it? We say emphatically, initiate the
the example of the winners. The Re-
publicans were far surer of carrying
Maine. Did they sit down, fold their
arms, and give up the ship On the
contrary, they then, for the first time
in their campaign, got up and went to
work in earnest. 1t was absolutely
necessary that they should retrieve an
unexpected and almost fatal disaster,
and they have retrieved it. They
are to-day where they were before
Maine was snatched from them. The
Democracy has received a heavy blow,
but no heavier than the one Republi-
cans received. 1t now remains to be
seen whether they will bear it as well,
and improve it as wisely. Democrats
are not made of the stuff which sur
renders easily. If they were the party
would have been dead and buried
nineteen years ago. They have in
domitable pluck and pertinacity, and
now is the time to give those qualities
practical expression, instead of being
discouraged and demoralized by an I'M
expected reverse They should be and
will be nerved thereby to greater
efforts. Again we say to Democrats
everywhere, do as the Republicans did
after Maine, and if they follow this
advice, letting the past go for what it is
worth, and working the present ''for
all it's worth" the future will bring
appropriate reward. st. Louis Re-
publican.