Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-21

brought $4,000 persons on Monday who
paid for their admissions. and hardly 50. 1000
persons tho remainder Of the week. when
there was no Cleveland to be seen.
cozzENs-rALMER EPISODE.
The Duke Of VeragUa has been chiefly
carried around 10 private dinners aud re-
ceptions, and has been the cause Of some
spitefuluess among women who would like
20 be knocked down by newspaper type
every day IN the year. Some of them would
stand under column of newspaper type
q hundred feet high and submit to being
mashed by IT II 1t would spell out their
names. Phoebe Cozzens was some time ago
something or other IN the Woman's Life
Saving Institution. She vas removed on
the Guitesu plan. and Mrs. Potter Palmer
substituted Tor her. When the fair opened
II was proposed TO depose Mrs. Palmer,
and II was thought that there were voices
enough 70 play the game well, upon the
principle OF that game described in the
late Mr. Curtiss 'Trumps," where every
boy was TO shout the name of the girl he
was IN love with at tie top of his voice.
and this game was set up on little fellow
who knew no better, rs a big bad boy was
determined to discover whether that
little fellow was not in love with bis
girl. SO. when they were to shout aloud
only the little fellows voice was heard
yelling like fury, Hope Wayne" SO
when this game was 10 be played one
voice stentOrianly spoke, Phoebe Coz
Zens,n and all was still. Within day or
two Mrs. Palmer got up and shed some
tears and said she should resign. Like
Artemus Ward when drafted IN the war.
she said, in erect Highly gratifed FOR
the unexpected honor conferred upon me
/ shall resign. Modesty Is what aIls me-"
All this row IS SAID to have ensued from
Mrs. Palmer having had too much of tho
society of the Duchess of Neragus.
asked MIR. Melville Stone, the new chief
of the Associated Press. who had been TO
one Of the Veragua receptions, what he
thought Of the personal outfit there.
SAID he Tho Duke is small man, with
side-w hiskers, rathered fatterod by bis
portraits. | could realize nothing Of Co
! lumbus IN him except a somewhat deter
mined mouth. His wife rather appeared 10
be the more substantial and decided per-
sonage of the two"
oh, well" said /, "the idea which Co.
lumbus brought did not require beautl-
ful being to come with it,. He was sailor
with unusual persistence. who had found
pearl somewhere IN his wanderlngs. IN
the form OF daring proposition. which
! he was willing to carry out II somebody
would foot the bills
That is IT." SAID Nr. Stone. "Colum-
/ bus was great deal of n man because he
/ had such an idea and prosecuted It CT
! fectivelv. Otherwise his descendants would
remind me OF the story of one of our
humorists that, when he lived IN mining
camp. he was awakened one night by
! delegation at ms door, who addressed
! him saving: We have called you up in
1 your night-shiIt TO report TO you that we
/ have had meeting down at Sprague's
| grocery. and have there debated IN eTtenso
as 10 whether you are genus or NOT. III
! has finally been resolved that you are a
! genius aud we have been sent here to adj
/ mt the fact at a reception, which YOU are
| now receiving, but because We have seen
vou in your night-shirt We shall report
! that genius looks like any other man IN
| bls night-shirt'
SPANISH BULI-TIGHTs
| The effect Of the Worlds Fair is being
| felt backward as well as forward. The
| Duke of Neragua's friends now report him
| rs saying that though some bulls are raised
| for the bull-dGhts on his place, he knows
very little about the matter, and Is not IA
/ yorable TO bull-fghting but that hls over
/ seer disposes Of the said bulls. ! was in
/ Madrid last spring and "a bull-hght
! was given there. attended bv 10000
people. for the benefit of sufferers by
| the inuudations IN Andalusia. All the
/ hulls belonged to the Duke of Neragua.
and his name was printed IN Immense
| letters on all the show bills. ! am not
sure that he was at the bull-fght. But
/ in Spain there Is no othor opposition to
ull-fchting which is effective than the
dislike OF the Austrian Queen Regent TO
attend these shows. with their disembow-
elled horses dispersed carcasses, and pitt
less hostility to the bull, no matter how
gallantiy he fights or jumps or runs runs
| AWAY His death is "a much demanded
as would have been the death of some
German gladiator or Christian apostle by
/ the ancestors of many of the Spanlards,
| Tor the bull-ieht is merely the arena re-
| tanned, and Spain was for long period
/ of time more Roman than Rome Itself,
! tho birthplace OF Roman abb0ts and en-
/ perors. and seat of formidable Roman
! cities. When the GOths burst over the
! p,renees and took the Roman cities and
! found the arenas there, they substituted
| eauestrlan exercises and tho batting or
| bulls for the chariot races and the nights
/ Of gladlators. A large Carthaglnlan Gle
ment preceded the Romans IN Spain,
which was equally fond of bloody shows.
| The Cloths became insensate and Glutton-
Gus for cruel exhibitions, and one OF their
princesses who was married over IN
! France or Germany IS represented as
/ ordering her rival 10 be tied by her long
/ hair to the tail of a wild horse and drag
| ced TO death over the ground. ClucinMon
was common in Spain among all the races
/ uhich preceded the Moors. The Pho
/ nlcIans IN their home cities cruclhed
/ the captivcs taken from Alexander the
| Great. and he crucltied themselves upon
! the walls when be had taken their towns.
| The Arabs. when they replaced these ma
tIons, brought IN impaling which was no,
| thing but Crucitixion IN another way, ana
| the French impaled IN Egypt the assasslns
/ of keber. Impaling was putting stake
| through the sinewS OF living man nhI
! Tins hanging him up until he dleu
between starvation and exhaustion. Cor
| dova. when IL was the Moorish cap
| ital witnessed many scene OF impaled
rebels against them. and Cahphs standing
! over the city gates bowling or around the
/ mosques or along the pavement by the
riyer. When the Spanlards broke INTO
| America they appear 10 nave brought thelr
| hulls with them, which became Wild IN the
Nest Indies and on the Spanish main, ana
they roasted and lmpaled the native kings
and people from cupldlty for their money
and gold.
HIS DERIVATION.
The Duke of Veragua. while derived
| from Columbus, has twelve generations
, Of other bloods in him. tie is also de-
! rived from the grandfather OF Ming
| Ferdinand. He is of the stock OF the
Duke of Alva, who desOlated the Nether-
| Duke of Berwick. who was OF biood de,
rivation from Mary Queen OF scots ana
Darnley and the slater of Henry VII
! and the Pretender. The woman who oe-
can Neracua's family was Maria OF Toledo
II niece Of the royal house OF SPAN. Ihls
! dnke retains the title OF Columbus. Aomi-
raj of the Indies, and 1t was. very, great
conoesslon made to Columbus, placing
bIm among the grandees of Spain. the
| oqual of Admiral Eurlquez, who was uhcIe
of the King and Queen. or all that lnl-
,a.,,se dominion in America nothln. now
remains but Cuba and Porto RICO
The African question lN l.,
comes up here incidental "A 57-cNi |
10 the gathering OF many. 81 r-rATT |
naval officers. most or
whom have entered the 10 6Att
navy since the civil war. ~ ~. r. 81
| 1 was talking TO one only tGTtr.GT3
Yesterday who had been q SISsIN
! some time cruising OF the &/E-Alh 4
| African coast. lie said n ~ y
| that certain officers OF the IN ~
ship or squadron were n 81 " !
deputed to go up 10 a Il y ~
| native king IN the Congo III 7 ~
! onl faltcifQsa him it