The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-14
GOSSIP.


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| Correspondents OF The Messenger.)
Goldsboro. December 10
The several defeats OF the Goidsooro
foot ball team has made II a target
Nor challenges from very direction. IL
Is learned that they have booked con
tests right I'D TO February LIST. 1901
50 eager are the boys TO show O de-
termination 10 get rid OF h white
feather they have been ferced thus
far TO ear They are made OF the
right kind OF stuff and the only way TO
down them IS TO Kill them and. in that
event. they will rse again
Manager Wigs. of the Wilmington
| team Mas here yesterday arranging
a match and 1 am Informed that three
games were fixed The first OF these
is 90 lake place here on Christmas
day when the home team hope to sur
| prise the Wilmington BOYS with a de-
feat as a Christmas gift The secoad
game will be pulled OF at Wilmington
on New Years day. and the third.
| time n place to be agreed IN
On the l4th nst. the team hope to
do the Tarboro team ON their grid
| iron. On the 21st at Goldsboro hey
expect 10 win bac what hey lost with
New Bern.
Our BOYS are moi going to be asleep
any more when time Is called:
they mesn business now. Gulley's eye
and Chafnberlain's nee have been
repaired, and good bail Is the order
henceforth. Some Of our neighbors
Will find their colorS trailing in She
dust, for orange and black are the
winning colors now.
Hon r NEnn1arl apa u-iFa uo-a
in the city today Ell route ron on
ference.
Rev. J. w. Rose and . family will
leave for Bethel. their home, on We'd
nesday. We gre TO o $ 50 good a
man and preacher. His family. too.
endeared themselves to our people.
Amos Green. coolred. suffered =
heavy loss asst night by fire. He is a
carpenter and farms about two miles
from the city on the lands Of the
Alessrs- Well Bros. He is held in es-
TEEN here by many, who appreciate
in any one. The property de-
stroyed was a barn. about Seventy-five
bushels of corn. one mule. one COW.
one wagon. one buggy and farming
implements. entailing loss of
$3.50. The fire was of incendiary orr
gin, h party who did the firing be-
ing tracked to and from the property
destroyed, a distance of about a half
mile The loss falls heavily upon the
old cOQOred man.
Yesterday morning about IL o'clock
a small fire occurred in the northern
section of the city-a dwelling owned
by w. H. Griffin and occupied by N.
A. Graham. The fire was confined to
the roof and it is thought the damage
Will not exceed $50.
Rev. L. r. Carroll has accepted a
call to Falling Creek Baptist church.
Messrs. George Britt and Sam. Hines
attended this church yesterday and are
delighted with their visit. Both are
agreed on two things found there
pretty girls and good grub. Mr.. Britt
says he never saw these people in bet
ter spirits; that good crops and good
prices enable them to live AIT home.
and both himself and Hines left there
fully determined to go again.
The appointments and d~isappoint-
mentS have not yet been read out. but
the trains brought in quite a numbe,
of laymen and preachers. returning
home from the Methodist conference.
Hon. F. M. Simmons, quite recoyer-
ed from his recent illness, passed
through for Raleigh.
Jordan. the impersbnator. will be al
the opera house Tuesday night under
the auspices Of Ruffin lodge Knights
OF Pythlas. benefit Knights of Pythias
banda treat is in store for those who
attend.