742 THIERRY AMEDEE, 8. D. 



TODD, JOHN. 



There is a daily lino of steamers to New 

 Orleans and another to Indianola and Corpus 

 Christ!; a weekly line to Havana, and another 

 -w York; and a semi-monthly line to 

 Liverpool. The Galveston, Houston & Hen- 

 derson Railroad connects the city with Hous- 

 ton and the diverging railroads, crossing West 

 Bay on a bridge nearly two miles long. The 

 depot and warehouses cover twenty acres. 

 The Galveston Wharf Railroad enables the 

 company to load its cars directly from the ves- 

 sels. A canal, ten miles long, opens an avenue 

 for commerce to the Brazos River. The chief 

 manufactories are two iron-founderies. six ma- 

 chine-shops, and the gas-works. The New 

 York and Texas Beef-preserving Company kill 

 and can 48 cattle per day. There are two na- 

 tional banks, with an aggregate capital of 

 $800,000; a savings-bank, with $175,000 cap- 

 ital; two banking and insurance companies, 

 and fonr insurance companies, including a life- 

 insurance company. The whole number of 

 joint-stock companies is twenty-three, having 

 an abrogate capital of $12,211,000. The as- 

 sessed value of property for the year ending 

 February 28, 1878, was $16,500,000; bonded 

 debt, $380,700; estimated receipts for the 

 year ending February 28, 1874, $282,986; es- 

 timated expenditures, $278,763. 



The city is laid out with wide and straight 

 streets, bordered by numerous flower gardens. 

 les the churches, the public buildings in- 

 clude the custom-house, post-office, United 

 States court-house, county court-house, city 

 and county prison, city-hall, opera-house, two 

 theatres, three concert-halls, four other public 

 halls, thirteen hotels, and three market-houses. 

 Oleander Park occupies eighty acres, and the 

 !'ark twenty-five acres. There are six' 

 jmMic squares, an esplanade two miles long, 

 and three public gardens. Magnolia Grove 

 Cemetery comprises one hundred acres, and 

 the city cemetery ten acres. There are nine 

 miles of street railroad in operation. 



THIERRY, AMI>E SIMON DOMIXIQI-E, D. 

 C. I... a distinguished historian, born at HI. -is, 

 Franco, August 2, 1797 ; died in Paris, March 

 20, 1873. Hi- r. -reived a very thorough col- 

 i in his native city, his father 

 intending to make him a teacher. Having, 

 however, a strong taste for historical studies, 

 be devoted himself to literature, and com- 

 menced his career as a journalist. He soon 

 began to prepare historical works, in which he 

 pave evidence of a talent scarcely inferior to 

 his DhuMom brother, the author of "The 

 ry of the Norman Conquest." One of 

 these works, published in his thirty-first 

 gained him the professorship of History in 

 the College of Besancon ; but, on a chan 

 ministers (under the Restoration), his liberal 

 opinions displeawed the new minister, and he 

 WM removed from hi* professorship. During 

 the reign of Louis Philippe he became Prefect 

 of Haute-Saone, and afterward Master nt 

 quest* in the Council of State an office which 



ho held until after the t<- if Decem- 



ber, 1851, when he was appoii .ilor. 



and in 1860 was raised to the rank of Senator. 

 He passed through the various grades of of- 

 tirer, commander, and grand officer, of the 

 n of Honor, receiving the last in August, 

 1868. He was elected a member of the ln-ti- 

 tute of France in 1841. M. Thierry's published 

 works were: "A Compendious History of 

 Guienne," 1825; "The History of the Gauls," 

 8 vols., 8vo., 1828 (this was his ablest mid 

 most popular work); " History of Gaul under 

 the Roman Administration," 8 vols., 1840- 

 1842; a supplement and commentary to the 

 preceding work ; " Attila and his Successors," 

 2 vols., 8vo, 1843; "View of the Roman Em- 

 pire," 8vo, 1862; "Passages and New Pas- 

 sages of Roman History," 2 vols., 1860 and 

 1864; " St. Jerome, the Christian Society at 

 Rome, and the Roman Emigration to the Holy 

 Land." 2 vols., 8vo, 1807. 



TODD, Rev. JOIIM, D. D., an American cler- 

 gyman and author, born in Rutland, Vt., Oc- 

 tober 9, 1800; died in Pittsficld, Mass., August 

 24, 1873. In his youth he had severe strug- 

 gles with poverty, and was much embarrassed 

 in his efforts to obtain an education ; but grad- 

 uated from Yale College in 1822, after a year 

 of teaching, he spent four years at Andover, 

 in the Then]- >;.'ical Seminary. He was ordained 

 as pastor of the Congregational Chuivli in Gro- 

 ton, Mass, in 1827. Six years later he wns set- 

 tled over the Edwards '('Inircb nt Northamp- 

 ton. In 183fi he was called to take the pasto- 

 rate of the First Congregational Church in Phil- 

 adelphia; and in 1842 DO became past or of the 

 First Congregational Church in Pittsficld. Ho 

 remained in performance of the active duties 

 of the pastorate in PitMleld until May, 1872, 

 when tne infirmities of age compelled aim to 

 seek relief from them. Ho was one of the 

 founders of the Holyoke Female Seminary, 

 and had been through lite a zealous friend of 

 education. In 1845 Williams College con- 

 ferred on him the degree of D. D. But his 

 reputation and influence in the past and in the 

 future will rest mainly on his writings. His 

 books, about thirty in number, have all been 

 republished in England, and several of them 

 have been translated into French, German, 

 Greek, Dutch, Danish. Italian. Arabic, Arme- 

 nian, Turkish, and Tamil. His "Lectures to 

 Children," were also printed in raided letters 

 for the use of the blind. Of some of his books 

 there have been several hundred thousand cop- 

 ies printed. He had also ' -'ant con- 

 tributor to the Oongrtgattonaliit, and other re- 

 ligious periodicals. The following is a nearly 

 complete list of his books, except pamphlet 

 sermons, addresses, orations, etc. : "Lectures 

 to Children." 2 vols., about 1- "The 

 Student's Manual," I:i4; "Index Rcrnm," 

 1835; "The Sabbath-School Teacher," 1836; 

 "Truth made Simple." I-::": " The Lost Sis- 

 tor of Wyoming," 1841 : "Bible Companion," 

 1841; "Great Cities: their Moral Influence," 



