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BULL FIGHTS IN MADRID,
Brutal Exhibition In Honor Of tho Recent
Royal MISUNDERSTANDING Scene which
tho Youn1 oman Enfovs


Brutal Exhibition In Honor Of tho Recen
Royal MISUNDERSTANDING Scene whicl
tho Young Queen Enjoys.
A part Of the five days festivities il
honor Of the marriage Of the King o1
Spain to the Princes Mercedes was de.
voted to the Spanish "sport"- bull.
fighting. A Madrid correspondent oi
the New York Evening Post gives the
following account of the savage exhibi
tion on the second day, given in specia.
honor Of the newly-married pair: But
Linden has seen another sight to-day
Yesterdays corrida was paid for by tht
grandees OF Spain. That Of to-day hal
been dedicated to the king and queen
by the city corporation. The same
style, the same lavish expenditure, the
same magnificent display at the despeio,
and the same dresses have characterized
this corrida. It has been beautiful
day. The people Of Madrid, quieted by
the assurance that they are to have toos
for themselves, have been orderly and
in better humor than yesterday, but
there have been no cheers for royalty.
The plaza was still more imposing to,
day, for the bright sun warmed the
scene into still greater brilliancy.
The caballeros en- plaza we're young,
handsome and excellent horsemen. The
bulls we're very different from those Of
yesterdays corrida. They fought like
tigers. The first one that came out
went full tilt at everything he saw, tore
off halberdier's sleeve and then at
tackled an alguacil, knocked his horse
down and carried off the alguacils hat.
The second, bravely attacked by the
caballero. wounded the horse. charged
into the midst of the helberdiers, and,
although woun led with the halberds,
went back to them two or three times,
actually biting them in his fury. The
third, called by the sporting reporter in
to-night's newspaper "an elephant with
bayonets," was, in sporting parlance,
"high, tempered, powerful and willing, "
and of muchos pies (many feeD. he
first picked up an alguacil, horse and all,
and threw him over into the midst of
the halberdiers, tearing almost all of his
clothes of. He then galloped away, but
came instantly back and charged al the
halberdiers again. ~
Then the caballero came prancing up
to him, and q beautiful sight it was, his
dress, horsemanship and horse all per-
feet in their kind, and raising his horse
with one hand, precisely according to
the combat, he thrust the rejoncillo into
the bulls shoulder. And then this
"powerful and willing" creature
turned and thrice threw the horse and
rider to the ground, and then and there
gored that beautiful horse to death, de-
iberately standing on the poor cabal-
lero's stomach and chest, on the velvet
satin and lace doublet while he gored
the horse. What that poor boys feel
ings must have been, as he lay there
under the tramping hoofs Of mad bull
cannot be conceived. The bull-fghters
did all they could to entice the bull
away, but in vain. He only left the
horse when it was dead, and charged at
the halberdiers again, giving time to
carry the cabelero to the infrmary. It
was all like a horrible nightmare-too
horrible to seem real, ....
. The next cabe1lero accomplished feat
seldom recorded in the annals of bull
fighting. He Killed the bull outright
with his rejoncillo. The king rose to
his feet and bowed to him, and, after
the fashion of corridas, people threw
their hats at him and their cloaks for
him to walk over. ..-
Four more bulls were fought in the
ordinary way. Such a corrida has
seldom been known. Twenty horses
were killed. As for the last bull the in
teligent say there scarcely ever saw such
q bull. He was everything, and had 80
"many feet this meaning that he
was swift runner-that he caught and
tossed all that came within his line of
vision. We are told in to-night's news.
paper that several distinguished foreign
ers have bought the heads of the best
bulls killed to-day and have ordered
them to be stuffed 80 as to preserve q
souvenir of to-day's eorrida.
The young queen is very fond OF bull.
fighting. Heaven save. the mark We
think her majesty has reason to be sat-
isRed with her nuptials. Fifty-three
noble animals have been slain in her
very presence. I shall never again see
her under any circumstance without
thinking of the bull-fghts of which she
is 80 fond.