Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-13
Gas and Electricity.

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When electricity was first success
fully used for illuminating purposes
there was great fall in the price of gas
stocks in all the large cities of the civil.
lized world. There has been a recovery
since then, and it really seems that Dr..
Siemens was right whenshe claimed that
the use of gas would increase, notWith-
standing the employment Of the electric
light. He expressed the Qpinion-that
the latter can never be used econorni-
cally in the household. But gas, he said,
would take the place of coal for heating
and cooking purposes, and this predic-
ton is being partially verified. We are
now promised a revolution by the use
of.petoieum to produce a gas which
gives out an intense heat. A patent has
been taken out in every civilized coun-
try for the production ofaga by some
combination of petroleum with lime.
The companies have. been formed, and
it is said that within a short time, and
by the pipes used for CARRYING ordinary
gas, that burning material will be intro
duced into our households which will
heat our .roomss and cook our food at
one-third of the cost now necessitated by
the use of coal or wood, The recent
speculative excitement in. petroleum. is
said to be due to the practical applica-.
ton of this patent by some of our. gas
companies. Petroleum has. never COM
manded a fair price in,Eiewt-of its epr6'
duction in excess of the demands of the
Consumers Our wells have, pumped
out about 81 100000 barrels per annum,
but heretofore the world has been
searched in vain for a market for this
ocean of mineral Oil. Should we make
use of.it, however, for. q. heatpreducing
and cooking gas, there will be an abun-i
dant demand for all the petroleum we I,
could produce 1t would add marvel
ously to human comfort if so bulky a
product as coal could be dispensed with,
and our dwellings, were warmed by a
cIeanly and comparatiyel inexpensive
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"A. Negro Pressed to Death In Rale
OF Cotton. .,r, - ri
On Nov. 20.~James Bradley, a negro !
living at Bell g Ferry, Pitt County, dis
appeared, and all search for him proved 1
fruitless. He was about to marry
woman. of that Section, when two women
came from. Hyde County, each Of whom \
declared she was Bradleys wife,, and
each exhibited child of which he was
alleged to be the father. These deFel-
.opments broke off the marriage, and 1
threw Bradley into fit of rage and 1
despair He went to the. cotton gin
house, while the laborers were at dinner,
it Is thought, and threw himself into the
half-flled box in which the cotton is
packed into bales; when the laborers
returned the box was filed and the bale.
was pressed, 'bagged, and sold. In q
few days it was shipped to Greenyille.
There q trader, cutting into it, found a
shoe. This, to his horror, contained
bot. The bale was then torn apart by
the eager crowds when the body of
Bradley was exposed, pressed fat, and
with the head crushed 10 a jelly. The
evidence show. that the negro, declar-
inc he would end his life, took several
drinks and threw himself in the press.
It was at first stated that Bradley had
been thrown into the press, but this was
proved to have been false, although the
laborers were all discharged.-Rales
IN. C.1 Dispatch,