The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-07-28
goeals.

Allen, OF this city, has invented and ap-
piled for letters patent on a very ingen-
ious, though very simple device for seal
ing railroad cars and other locks where a
seal may be desirable. The opinion of
railroad men who nave examined it is
that it will prove an invaluable improve
ment on the methods heretofore in use
for sealing railroad cars, as it is not only
a perfect seal, but an automatic record
of the seals at the same time, making
the lock of the car keep its own record,
and very much lessening the labor of
the tracing system rendered necessary
bv the present methods. For instance:
There is no way of telling with the seals
now in use 0here a car may have been
opened after leaving the starting point,
but with this seal the record it makes is
such that it shows at once at what sta
ton or between what two stations the
car was opened and hence obviates the
necessity of tracing a whole line to dis
cover that fact. 1t is a very simple, a
very CSllSoIs olIA ~ SSll W Vi ouSI1U
to be a very useful and valuable device.
For all the purposes for which a lock
seal is intended it meets the require
ments, and may be applied to mail bags
as we'll as railroad cars. With such a
seal on a mail bag it would be impossible
to tamper with the lock without it's be-
ing discovered at once at the first office
where the bag was delivered.
There seems to be an unusual num-
Der of mad dogs in the country at this
time. We hear reports of them from all
sections of the State. A few days ago
near High Point a farmer named Reece
was gathering some fruit while his two
little girls stood under the tree. Hear
one of the children scream, he looked
down and saw one of them strug-
glingwith a large dog, which had fastened
his teeth in the childs face, while the
other child lay fainting on the ground
with fright. He leaped from the tree,
and selling a stone succeeded in beating
the dog loose from the child. But the
dog escaped and was heard from later,
having bitten a number of dogs. These
facts were gathered from the father who
came to High Point in search of a mad
stone.
A REMARKABLE CAsE.--We clip the
following from the Winston Republican:
"a ten-year-old daughter of Mr.. Sam
uel Reid. who resides about four miles
from Winston, has been afflicted in a
very peculiar ann for several months
past. The child is confined to bed and
remains in a state of apparent insensi,
bility for days and weeks at a time, re-
fusing nourishment during these periods,
and food can only be given by main
force. Occasionally she awakens, as it
were, for a short time and calls for food,
of which she partakes in very small
quantities and then relapses again into
her former state of Inconsistencies.
We are informed that the longest period
of duration of one of these lethargic
states has been from ten to twenty days.
The little one, to all appearance, seems
as if the vital spark had fed, the eyes
are closed, respiration easy and scarcely
observable, and resists all efforts to
arouse or awaken and refuses to speak,
only at the lengthy intervals above
alluded to, when she calls for food. No
symptoms of pain are exhibited, and the
case is as yet beyond the skill of several
of our most eminent physicians"
Mr.. ]. w. Scales, of Reeds, sold the
tobacco from five-eights of an acre, at
the Piedmont Warehouse, for $l17.
Mr.. j. B. Vest, of this county, also
sold the product of one acre for $l6l.
But these are the happy exceptions.
There are hundreds of thousands of
pounds sold at less than half the cost OF
producing it. Make less-make it better
handle it carefully through all its
stages from the field to the warehouse,
and like Mr.. Scales and Mr. Vest, you
may realize good prices.
There is a law i'm some towns re-
quiring that dogs be muzzled to prevent
them from biting people. The biting
dog is not much worse than the dog that
howls through the night and gets all the
other dogs to bowling. That sort OF a
dog ought to be killed at once and with
out ceremony.
Typhoid fever seems to be prevalent
in different portions of the State. There
have been several cases in Winston. 1t
it easier to prevent this disease than to