Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-07
Communicated.
For the Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph

Mr. Editor: In witnessing, with you,
the operation of "Crary's Shingle Ma
chine" l could not help thinking that
our race is greatly benefited by those
who combine the mechanical forces and
apply them in the production of articles
for the convenience, comfort, and even lux
uries of flife-lessening the cost of the pro-
duets and by SO doing placing
them within the reach of all.
The consumers of cotton fabrics,
thirty five or forty years, in paying so
and 81 cents per yard for brown muslin,
paid no more than fair equivalent for
their production, but the cotton-gin and
power-loom now furnish us with a supe-
rior article for 6 and 10 cents peryard and
yetWe now pay more for the same amount
ofmuscular labor than was paid then--and
hence the credit of it's cheapness must
pass to the account of those who inven-
ted the gin and power loom. So, in most
of the callings of life, new appliances and
combinations of forces and mechanical
contrivancesare brought into service to do
the labor of the less accurate, less enduring
and less expeditions muscles and sinews
of man. And in view of the successful
conflict of mind with matter, if we are to
judge of the future by the past, the
beginning Of the next century will find
US far in advance of what we are now,
when chemical science and mechanical
contrivences will draw from nature other
motive power than that she now gives
us through the distilling of water,
when the atmosphere will be harnessed
up to do our bidding and we bid adieu
to steam, with all its attendant expen-
siveness and dangers.
But, to "Crary's Shingle Machine:"
Shaved shingles have heretofore been
made by hand, and it takes day of
hard labor to produce one thousand
from soft timber, and hence the timber
common to our country-oak, walnut,
ash, &c. for service durable, for
quantity Observation-Disclosures been exclu-
ded from our roofs, because the making
of them by hand is a great tax on our
muscular energies, which you are aware,
Mr.. Editor, is not very agreeable; and
for want of good shaved shingles, sawed
and cut shingles have been forced ON the
market, where in their manufacture the
timber is forced contrary to its rift and
the grain bruised and lacerated, so that
when the shingles are laid together on
the roof, they give the water its choice to
go down, on the principle of gravitation,
or up between the shingles, on the capil
larry principle, the latter of which can be
attested by immersing the ends Of two
sawed shingles, pressed together in a
basin of water, when the water will follow
up between the shingles from two to. five
lncneSj nence TOolS maue from Sucn
shingles are by no means durable.
Mr.. Crary, by a happy combination of
forces and ingenious mechanical con-
trivanees, has invented machine for
this age and country, machine almost
indowed with certainly with
action-adjusting itself to any kind of
timber, winding or "eaty,' doing its work
as we'll and as expeditiously in oak, walnut
or any rivable hard timber as in soft,
making shingles thick or thin, wide or
narrow, will not break, bruise or lacerate
the grain Or tear contrary to the rift; but
will adjust itself to the habit and nature
of the wood, and by so doing produce a
better shingle then is usually made by
hand. e OBSERVER.
Street Fight--Two Editors Shot.
LyNcHBURG, Va. June 23
Joseph and Robert Button, editors of
the Tirginian, were shot in the street,
to-day, by the brothers Hardwick, edit
ors and proprietors of the Republican.
One of the Buttons is said to be NOR
tally and the other seriously injured
Both Hardwicks have been placed in Jail.
Mr. Cole was not a participant in the af-
fair, and though in company with Stan
ley, was some distance off when the
shooting took place. We have it from
good authority, that Stanley takes all
the blame to himself, and says that
Snnithnrs was instifahla in what he did