Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Capt. Fred H. Marsh, United States Marshal for the Northern Illinois District. The fight over the Marshalship for the Northern District of Illinois was of such a lively character as to create an interest in political cifcles all over the country. Capt. Frederick H. Marsh, the successful aspirant, whose portrait is herewith presented, was bom in England on Sept. 7, 1843, and became a citizen of Oregon, HI., in 1855, and at the present time is Sheriff of Ogle County. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged some time after, on account of sickness. In October,

1861, he re-enlisted in the Forty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and, continued steadily in the service until he was mustered out at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 20, 1866, having been in the service four years and eight months, during which time he was promoted to a Captaincy. Captain Marsh was a member of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. In 1869 he formed a partnership with his brother, Charles F. Marsh, and opened a book and stationery store under the firm name of Marsh Bros., until about 1870, when ho retired, and some time later was appointed express agent. In 1870 and 1871 he was Town Clerk of Oregon. As Sheriff of Ogle County he has given good satisfaction, and is very popular with his constituents. The Late Sir Julius Benedict. Six Julius Benedict, the famous composer, whose death recently occurred at London, Eng., will bo remembered by many Americans as the gentleman who accompanied Jenny Lind to this country in 1850. He was born in Stuttgart in November, 1804, where Hummel, the great piano virtuoso of the time, became his tutor. When seventeen years of age he was taken in hand by Weber, who came to regard him as his son. In 1823, on Weber’s recommendation, he was intrusted with the leadership of the Vi-' enna opera. On leaving Weber he went to

Naples and conducted the opera at the Saint Carlo. Iu 1835 he went to Paris, where he fell in with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Auber, and others. The same year he went to England and adopted it as liis home. In 1836 he took charge of the London Opera Bouffe at the Lyceum Theater. He led the Drury Lane orchestra at the fame of- -the production-of- the great Balfe’s operas. When Jenfiy Lind decided to come to America she invited Sir Julius Benedict to be her pianist and general director. Returning to London, he became manager of Her Majesty’s Theater, and afterward at Drury Lane. * George Moritz Ebers. George Moritz Ebers is chiefly known to American readers as the author of a series of historic romances, among which “The Egyptian Princess” and “Uarda” have thrown a nineteenth century irradiation over that mysterious land of the Sphinx, which has been so long enveloped in truly Egyptian darkness. These romances, however, were bnt thfe accidental sequence of previous years of patient investigation, which added his name to the list of distinguished Egyptologists. “The Ebers Papyrus” is the second in extent and the first in preserva-

tion of all the Egyptian hadwritings known tons. It contains a complete manual of Egyptian medicine of the sixteenth century before, Christ. Among the curious presciptions herein contained is a recipe for hairdye ascribed to Teta, mother of one of the earliest kings of Egypt. The original of this is now the property'of the University Library at Leipsie, a copy of which Mr. Ebers laid before the Congress of Orientalists in London, in 1874. “The Egyptian Princess” appeared in 1863. A severe illness, resulting in lameness, keeping him a prisoner to his own room, proved the golden opportunity of developing his hitherto latent creative powers and crystallizing his science with a romantic form for the edification of general readere. Since that time his work has alternated between scientific researches and works of imagination.

Ada (aged fojjr), who was doing something, was told to desist by her mother. Mother: “Ada, am Ito apeak to you again?” Ada: “Yes, ma; you may if you like.” Cincinnati girls sometimes drown themselves before their wedding day. They apprehend, probably, that the bridegroom may poj; in making his escape. The widow’s home is with her second husband as soon as she can get one.