Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1879 — FROM GOODLAND. [ARTICLE]

FROM GOODLAND.

Goodlasd, Ikd., Sept. 4, 1879. Editor Standard: —Having a few leisure moments I thought I could not better employ the time than by holding a one-sided conversation with Ths Standard. Since visiting Rensselaer last wa have put in two days at the Remington fair (of course we are partial to all the institutions of Jasper county). We visited the fair on Wednesday and Friday, and our judgment, whether good or bad, pronounces it a decided Buccess in every particular. The show of live stock of all kinds being in advance of what is usually seen at ordinary county exhibitions of this character. The ladies’ department was well represented by their handiwork, there being on exhibition in Fh>raf Hall seme of the finest specimens of fancy needle work, etc., we have ever seen at county fairs. The display in the floral department 'Was, to say the least, splendid. The management of the exhition was first- ■ class, conducted by first-class men, hence the stfccess of the enterprise this year. I was informed that the secretary sold 1,800 tickets on the last day (Friday), and that each day of the exhibition was proportionately good. We have been having a splendid rain in this locality, which has a tendenoy to give the people as well as the corn and meadows a healthy, bright and smiling appearance, i Grain is not commanding as good a price jußt now as it did some days ago. Wheat brings 85 cents per bushel, flax sl, corn 28 oents, And oats 19 cents. We think the price will be better soon, at least we hope so, as our sympathies are now as they always have been tn fttvor of the producing, class of people. Col. R. P. DeHart, Lafayette’s favorite orator, delivered leotares to crowded houses in the M. E Church at this place on last Saturday night and on ths subjeot of temperance. His lectures-are well received by our people.

Dr. M. L. Humston, of Morocco, known to many of the citizens of Rensselaer, was married to Miss JfcMurry, of this place, last week. Our geod'people all 'join in congratulating the happj couple. P&ooases. Smytokins was out late on a lark with “the boys." Next morning when when he complained or a headache, hla wife remarked that “the night tare didn't seem to agree with him.”—Salem Sunbeam. The poet says: “How sweet the music of the Sabbath bell,” and yet there are men who prefer to listen to it a mile or so'awajf in- the vicinity of * berry patch. Nb