The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-01-27
FROM OHIO.

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 20, 1872.
To- the Editor Of the woREINsNAS's ADVOCATE
La passing through Portage and Mahon-
ing counties | was struck with the enter
prise which has developed and is develop
ing the coal and iron interest. A great
many leases have been taken in Atwater
and other places lately TO sink shafts for
coal which is found from three to five feet
i'll thickness, at depth Of 80 to $50 feet.
Furnaces are multiplying, Welch miners
are immigrating, railways are being plan
ned, and there is a great want Of money.
4. The most exciting subject among us at
present is the Inventors Exhibition at the
Central Rink An immense variety Of
machinery and manufactures, many new
and useful improvements, are exhibited.
The whole exhibition is very creditable and
a decided success. l cannot particularize
much. Sewing machines, with the most
elaborate specimens Of their work were in
great numbers and variety
DIR. Libbys Buggy" with its gifted
motto, ''No Horse TO FEED" excited great
admiration. 1t was simply a three wheeled
velocipede, with calash top made in the
lightest manner consistent with strength
Hubs long, two sets Of wire probably steel)
spOkes, act bracing from the ends of the
hubs to the rim Of the wheels
Among the useful, noticed power drill
A machine for making galvanized iron cor
nice, bending the plates in almost every
conceivable manner, has recently been per
fected by Calvin Carr a. Co., who manufac-
ture machines and cornice with great facil-
ity Of course more cheaply.
This is the week of prayer" Since the
great Chicago fire there seems increasing
belief in the great fact that God governs
the world. Reason has long since declared
that he who creates must preserve. He who
preserves must govern, and His government
to be effectual must be universal 1t must
extend to every event however small Lon
don was desolated by pestilence intro
duced by a ships crew among whom it was
generated by small defect was caused by
the gnawing Of worm, in an oak which
stood on another continent century be-
fore Since the wonderful combinations
which conspired to consume millions, men
look back to see the small beginning, the
confidence Of ths millionaires in well or
ganized fire companies, having the water of
an inland sea at command at nearly every
corner, their owners mapping in their fire
proof buildings, their beholding the tor
nado let loose by Him who holds the winds
in his fist, the flying embers, melted iron,
falling towers, fremen batfled, constema-
ton reigning. the pride of the West re-
duced to cinders, since this men are more
ready to acknowledge that if they can take
natural laws and reduce them to their SER
vice in erecting mills, factories and engines
of destruction, that He who made those
laws can employ them at his spleasure to
chastise the rehelliuus, to humble the proud,
to protect or instruct his friends and loyal
subjects, Of course that he hears and can
answer prayer. In a neighboring religious
and educational town, a pastor recommends
his members to take the paperA, to hear what
is going on i'll the world, that they might
pray intelligently. Honest men, looking
at things from different standpoints, through
different mediums, of course, see thingsdif-