Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-07-11
nuLuWAYo.
Two Years Ago NatHbele KraAl. II Now
Has Clubs and Hotels.

center of unusual interest to all British
people. A little more than two years
ago it was the chief llaal of old Loben.
gula and his dusky warriors. Then the
irrepressiblc Britisher stepped IN
claimed il for his own, and fashioned
and modelled IL into the semblance of
motherland township, with most of the
concomitants that go to make up a civ.
ilized community. Now.we are alarmed
with the news that the Matabeles have
risen in force, and are irresistibly re.
minded of the struggles in the earlier
part of this century between the white
pioneers and the Kaffirs.
No better idea of the position occu.
pied by Buluwayo to-day could be OBJ
tanned than by glance through the col
umns of it's papers. The Buluway1
Chronicle is well-printed eight-page
journal, published twice weekly, and
containing brave show of advertise
ments as testimony TO the enterprise
of the settlers Already the editor finds
cause to chasten: There are various
events occurring in Buluwayo which
denote the transition of the town from
the rough-and-ready period to that of
the settled stage. Men are more care
full in their dress, and the age of
starched shirts and dress suits has ar
rived. The free and careless order is
relegated to the old, obstinate pioneers,
who will not change. But, if the change
has its good side, it has also its reverse,
for there is not the dependence on the
word that there was in other times.
The lawyers are more busy, and the
reading of this or that clause is now
contested and a judicial decision OBJ
tanned, where previously the spirit in
which the contract was entered into
was religiously acted up to-"
What right has dress clothes in this
recital? And what connection has
starched shirts with an indifference to
ones word?- Is it the advent of the
lawyers, who. unlike their English
brethren. are not above advertising
their presence? Litigation would be
difficult without these gentry. And
what has Buiuwayo to do with dress
clothes? Do they dine there at fash
ionable hour, or are the young eXquis-
ties preparing for the opening of the
new opera house, which is to be erected
by a company with capital of 3d.
900? This opera house is to have an
Elegant exterior" seating accommO-
dation for 500, and to be lighted by
electricity. Modernity with a ven
geanCe in old Lobengula's Buluwayo.
Buluwayo, too, has its club, a number
of hotels, a stock exchange (as matter
of course), building society on mutual
principles, a chamber of commerce,
circuit court, polo club and lodge of
Free Masons. True, a remnant of prim-
tive habits, dating from two years ago,
survives here and there. What shall we
say, for instance, of the stubborn old
pioneers who persist in turning their
horses adrift in Eighth avenue to make
their way back unattended to the
stables? No wonder our editor calls IL
an extraordinary pastime.' The
thing couldn't be done in London.
Buluwayo must put stop to it.
One piece of gratifying news is
that the Buluwayo Laundry company
went through swimmingiy, being
| large oversubscribed." Buluwayo will
now have the opportunity of getting de-
Gently clean shirts. This is, we repeat,
gratifying. Dress clothes would look
strange without the complement of
starched shirts. Then one finds innu-
merabla other instances of the progress
of Buluwayo. Some one has become
bankrupt there, or gone into liquida-
tion, aud a snopkeeper is already hold
ing a clearance sale at which enormous
bargains are to be had. The Wesleyans
have built a new church on Ninth ave-
nue., and had Conversations to cele-
brate the event. Suburban resorts, too,
are springing into existence, a certain
gentleman having taken the Welsh
Harp hotel, at the Umgusa river six
miles out, with the intention of making
1t popular place for shooting matches
pigeons, not lions), cricket, tennis and
other essentially British sports.
English farmers will turn green with
envy on reading the prices paid for
produce in Buluwayo. Butter realizes
from shillings to 10 shillings penc
per pound. Eggs are TO be had for
modest little sums varying from shil-
lings pence to 10 shillings per dozen.
though this is somewhat difficult OF
comprehension, when fowls are only
worth from 3 shillings pence TO s shil-
lings each. Do not the hens lay in
Matabeleland? And if they do not
whence come the fowls? Cabbage, too
is at a premium, being worth from
shillings to shillings 6 pence each
Probably the people of Buluwayo dis
pense with butter, eggs and cabbage as
superfuous luXuries, unless they are
all becoming wealthy.
And now, like bolt from the blue, we
! read of Buluwayo being in danger itself
} from the men who once owned the lane
an unpleasant reminder that savagei
cannot be subjugated and civilized in
, day.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Gold Ring In a Turtle Shell.
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