The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-09-02

Spanish cables state that five
thousand are in prison as a result
of Spain's near-revolution. If this
rate of arrests keeps up there will
soon be not enough people to act
as jailers over there.
Washington wires indicate that
the insurgents in the national house
are whettiGg their knives for Uncle
Joe Cannon. When it comes to a
case of a knife against cannon.
we rather think the cannon will have
the best of it, however.
Wednesday the stock market open
ed weak. If we had been rugged,
drugged, cross-cut and double-cross-
ed as much as the stock market, we
would be too weak to open at all.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
declares Taft the tool of great po-
litical machine. The tool is so large
and heavy that the Pitchfork might
have called it a blunt instrument.
Texas growers of that pungent, sue
cuIent, lachryfacient vegetable, the
Bermuda onion, are in a combine
that looks like a trust. The hardest
prosecuting attorney in the Lone
Star State could not break it up
without getting tears in his eyes.
Mr.. Simms, of Natchez, better
known as "Quick Delivery Simms
of Vidaia,' has returned to straight
ell out affairs and says as he has
been offered financial support by
friends he may resume business. This
is comforting news to Natchez.
The leading negroes of MISSISSIPPI
pi are worried by the repeated sto-
ries that the blacks will be barred
from practicing law and medicine
AS neither the Medical association
nor the State Bar association have
done anything in the matter, ana
as the weather is very hot, we would
advise a little patience until the SEN
atorial and gubernatorial campaigns
are ON. The move will then be COM
pletely forgotten
Cowfoot Creek, Miss, Aug. 70,
ST Hopkins wuz shot i'm the stumlc
and killed dead by unknown owner
of two fine shoats he took last week.
The owner has recovered his shoats
and the grand jury has brought In
yerdick of suicide by not calling his
friends quick enuf. All is quiet and
the trupes are busy keeping the
Hopkins clan from retaking the
shoatS.
Gov. Johnson, of Minnesota, is 60
ing to the hospital for fourth oper-
alton for appendicitis. A man who
can have four slices clipped from his
appendix and stand as many defeats
as BRYAN ever did; although it has
never been shown to anybody's sat-
isfaction that Johnson was born to
defeat. Quite the contrary.
A carload of lumber received at
Baton Rouge, La, was found to be
well filled out with boil weevfls
When the weevil avails himself OF
the common carriers for transporta-
tom, there is little left for the farm
ers to do but raise corn, hogs and
truck. 1t seems as bad as the mos
ouitoes that came with lanterns.
Two Greeks of GulfpOrt are fight
ing over the right to name for a
restaurant. These Hellenics Ehasher-
les might forego the name River
side," which is in dispute, and COM
promise by calling one place the
Kitchen of Epimanual and the 9TH
err the Chop House Of lCleisthenes-.
In either a biscuit would taste as
good.
Judge Potter warned the grand
jury at Raymond against permitting
any one to .'lobby" them or sway
their opinion In any way. Why not
Suggested to the grand jury that
they indict the man who approached
them. Some people seem to think a
grand jury as easy as legislature.
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Now that the wool growers are to