Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1879 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Editor Sbktenkl : Agreeably' to my promise to you I will now' endeavor.lo give your readers, through the medium of your excellent paper, a brief account of the doings and surrouudings of o ir pleat - ant little city. Goodiaud, as many of your readers will probably know, was originally named Tivoli; but owing to the fact that there was another town and post office of the same name in this State, it became necessary to change the name of this place, and taking in consideration the beautiful surrounding couutry, and the excellence of the soil, the place was very properly and happily called Goodland. Our people here think that the country throughout this section cannot be beaten anywhere for productive Jqualities. Mr. C- F. Streight, who was a member of the Indiana editorial delegation in their recent excursion to the Far West, informs me th«.t nowhere in their lino of travel did they meet with anything to compare with it. To satisfy ourselves, all we need to do is simply to get into a buggy and take a look at the “immense (as our neighbor expressed it the other day) oceans” of corn growing all over this beautiful land, as far as our vision can extend. To see the wheat, oats and rye stacked here and there, and the industrious fanners busily engaged in threshing and caiing for the smaller grains, which have been grown in immense quantities, are certainly sights that amply repay one for the trouble in going to witness such scenes.

Our town is located in the southeastern corner of Newton county, about one mile from the Jasper county line, and perhaps two from the Renton county line, on the Pan-Handle RR. It is easy ot access from all points of the compass. Its population is made up from almost all nationalities on the face of the globe, including the Henglishman, but our people here do not appear to owe him any grudge on account of our Revolutionary difficulties. They seem to have “buried ihe hatchet,” and are willing to “let oy gones be by gooes* to “let the dead past bury its dead.”— I believe that we have no “Heathen Chinee” with “vain tricks and ways’ peculiar” here: owing no doubt to the fact that we have, no Senator Nyes to interest them at their favorite games. We took in the Remington Fair on Wednesday and Friday, and we certainly must express ourself well satisfied with the management, and exhibitions in every department of the institution. We are informed that the Fair was a financial success, as well as a successful exhibition of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry—and here letjjme sav that to Dr. S. C. Maxwell is due the credit of building up and improving the poultry department to its present excellent condition. It was certainly the finest show of poultry we ever witnessed The show of fancy needle-work, and tex tile fabrics of all kinds, certainly reflect great credit on the exhibitors. The lunning, pacing and trotting was good, and would have gone off very well only that some of the drivers were disposed to find fault and quarrel with the judges. Goodland claims the champion trotter, “Bay Chief,” (owned by Mr. Culver) who took first mo ey on the Thursday and Friday trot. With kind wishes for the prosperity of the Sentinel, and the welfare of its many I am as ever, Y.