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tERRELL

1893

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h) yearly value, may be named rolling-mills, stamping- works, car-shops, wagon, tool, brick and tile works, hominy and flour mills and several distilleries, which are among the largest in the country. Population 58^57.

Ter'rell, Tex., an important city of Kaufman County, is 32 miles from Dallas, in a fine agricultural section. Among its industries ar^ , cotton-oil mill, cotton-gins, a cotton-compress, flouring-mill, creamery, grain-elevator, iron and brass foundry, brickworks and the shops of the Texas Midland Railroad. Terrell has fine school-buildings, thorough course of study and North Texas University School (Meth. Epis.). It has good public buildings and several churches and r^orth Texas Hospital for the Insane. It has all the facilities of a modern city, the service of two railroads and a population of 7>°5°-

Ter'rier (Latin terra, the earth; French, terrier, a burrow), a small, unsually shaggy-haired dog, but of many varieties. It is kept and bred by dog-fanciers, either as a pet or to kill rats and other vermin in their burrows or holes in the earth. The chief breeds are the Skye, Dandie Dinmont, fox and other Scotch varieties; the English bull-terrier, black and tan, the Airedale, Bedlington, Welsh and Irish breeds, besides the Boston terrier etc. In height the terrier stands from eight to 16 inches (the bairy Scottish kinds being generally low in stature), with a weight from 14 to 24 Ibs. 01 , in the case of the heavy bull-terrier, with a weight of 50 or more pounds. The Maltese is another variety, of the lap-dog species. See among other authorities F. T. Barton's Terriers, their Points and Management, London, 1907.

Ter'ry, Alfred Howe, an American soldier and general, was born at Hartford, Conn., Nov. 10, 1827, and died at New Haven, Conn., Dec. 16, 1890. After studying and practicing law he became colonel of a militia regiment in Connecticut, and on the outbreak of the Civil War his x regiment was mus-|tered into the Uni-S ted States service and took pait in

Terry was present at the capture of Port Royal, at the siege of Fort Pulaski and in the operations against Charleston. He was promoted to brigadier-general, shared Jn the capture of Fort Wagner, and acted in Virginia in 1864 as division and corps commander. He served at Drury's Bluff, at

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Bermuda Hundred, at the siege of Petersburg, but his chief achievement as a soldier was his assault and capture of Fort Fisher (Jan. 15, 1865). After this he served under Sherman as corps-commander, and was at the capture of Wilmington. He was bre-vetted major-general in the regular army in 1865, and commanded the departments of Dakota and the south, a.nd was in charge of successful expeditions against Sitting Bull and the Sioux.

Terry, Ellen (Alice) [Mrs. E, A. War-dell], an English actress, was born at Coventry, Feb. 27, 1848, and made her first appearance on the stage with Charles K e a n's Shakespearian revivals, in 1858, in The Winter's Tale and as Prince Arthur in King John. She subsequently joined a Bristol company, of which Mrs. Kendal was a member, and appeared in London in 1863 as Gertrude in The Little Treas-we, as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and as Mary Meredith in Our A merican Cousin. After her marriage she retired from the stage for a while, but in 1867 reappeared, and later joined Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft's company, acting the part of Portia arid touring with Sir Henry Irving as leading lady of his troupe. Her impersonations include Viola in Twelfth Night, Ruth Meadows in Eugene Aram, Henrietta Maria in Charles ?, Marguerite in W. G. Will's play of Faust, Rosamond in Becket, Lucy Ashtori in Ravenswood, Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth and others yet. In her repeated American tours she has won deserved praise, and is a welcome favorite of the modern stage.

Tes'la, Nikola, electrician, physicist and inventor, was born in Austria-Hungary in 1857, and studied at the polytechnic school at Gratz, the capital of Styria. For a time he was in the government telegraph engineering service, and in 1881 was employed at Paris in one of the large electric lighting companies of that city. In these employments he devoted himself to experiment* i n NIKOLA TESLA.

GENERAL TERRY