Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1885 — FRANZ ABT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRANZ ABT.

The Well-Known Musical Composer.

Franz Abt, whose death was recently announced by a cable dispatch, was born in 1819, and was, therefore, 66 years old. His parents intended him for the ministry, but, having a passion for music, he chose that vocation. He was a prolific composer of songs, his compositions numbering between four and five hundred, the most popular of which is “When the Swallows Homeward Fly.” .

The Bev. Dr. Talmage says he is going to Europe to Best and get acquainted with his family. He has their photographs, bnt has had no time to get acqnaiuted. "|t is the first rest he has had in thirty years. A Scotch gelatine manufacturer sends out with each package es his goods a leaf from the Bible. John Kelly still controls Tammany. He has been unanimously elected te his old position. Mbs. Garfield will spend five ireeks at Williamstown, Mass., this summer.