730 THIRLWALL, CONNOP. 



TOLDY, FRANZ. 



Railroad connects at Red River City with the 

 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad for St. 

 Louis. The International Railroad is intended 

 to extend southwest to Laredo on the Rio 

 Grande. The Texas & Pacific Railroad has 

 permission by its charter to continue its line 

 across the continent to San Diego, Gal. ; the 

 Transcontinental Division, when completed, 

 will extend from Texarkana to Fort Worth, 

 Tarrant County, on the main line. The Texas 

 & New Orleans Railroad was in operation to 

 the Sabine River previous to the civil war, 

 during which it was nearly destroyed ; it is to 

 be repaired. The Galveston & Santa Fe Rail- 

 road has been chartered to connect those two 

 points, and forty miles are under construc- 

 tion. 



The State institutions are the penitentiary, 

 at Huntsville, and the Institution for the Deaf 

 and Dumb (opened in 1857), the Institute for 

 the Blind (1856), and the Lunatic Asylum (1861), 

 at Austin. The labor of the convicts is leased 

 to contractors. The number registered at the 

 penitentiary in November, 1875, was 1,686, of 

 whom 452 were employed at the penitentiary 

 and the rest elsewhere. The Institution for the 

 Deaf and Dumb in 1874 had 46 pupils (31 males 

 and 15 females); the Blind Institute, 40 (16 

 males and 24 females) ; and the Lunatic Asylum, 

 127 inmates (68 males and 59 females). In 

 1875 an act was passed providing for the erec- 

 tion of two additional penitentiaries, one north- 

 east of the Trinity River and the other west^ 

 of the Colorado River. 



The case of George W. Honey, referred to 

 in the ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA of 1872, came be- 

 fore the Supreme Court, and was decided in 

 his favor. The court say that, as Mr. Honey 

 had gone away wifrh the intention of returning, 

 the office of State Treasurer was not vacant, 

 neither had he "absconded," as was repre- 

 sented. His accounts were also adjusted. 



THIRLWALL, CONNOP, an English bishop, 

 born at Stepney, in 1797; died July 27, 1875. 

 He was educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, was admitted to the bar in 1825, but 

 retired from the practice of the law in 1828, 

 and was ordained to the ministry, becoming 

 Rector of Kirkby-under-Dale, Yorkshire. He 

 was consecrated Bishop of St. Davids in 1840, 

 and continued in the discharge of the episco- 

 pal functions until 1874, when he was retired 

 at his own request on account of incapacity by 

 age and permanent physical infirmity, with a 

 pension of $10,000 a year. He was succeeded 

 by Dr. W. Basil Jones. His first publication 

 was a volume of essays and poems, entitled 

 " Primitiao," written before he was twelve years 

 of age. His next book was a translation of 

 Schleiermacher's " Critical Essays on the Gos- 

 pel of St. Luke," which was published in 1825. 

 His most important work was " The History of 

 Greece" (1835-'40). Grote praised it highly, 

 and declared that if it had appeared sooner he 

 probably would never have conceived the de- 

 sign of his own history ; and having been in- 



duced to take up the task by the deficiencies of 

 Mitford, he was pleased to note the progress 

 shown in Thirlwall's work of " sound, enlarged 

 views respecting the ancient world." The 

 book is not an entertaining one, but the orig- 

 inal researches of the author make it valuable 

 to students. He was also one of the translators 

 of two volumes of Niebuhr's "History of 

 Rome," an editor of the Cambridge Philological 

 Museum, and the author of a number of fugitive 

 essays, letters, and sermons. He was regarded 

 as the most scholarly of the English bishops. 



THOMASIUS, GOTTFRIED, a German theo- 

 logian, born in 1802 ; died January 24, 1875. 

 Having graduated from the gymnasium at 

 Ansbach, he studied at the Universities of 

 Erlangen, Halle, and Berlin, and in 1829 re- 

 ceived an appointment as minister in Nurem- 

 berg. In 1842 he went to Erlangen as Profess- 

 or of Theology, which position he retained up 

 to his death. He wrote " Origines : ein Beitrag 

 zur Dogmengeschichte des dritten Jahrhun- 

 derts " (1837), "Beitrage zur kirchlichen Chris- 

 tologie " (1845), " Das Bekenntniss der evan- 

 gelisch-lutherischen Kirche von der Versoh- 

 nung" (1857), and "Darstellung der lutheri- 

 schen Dogmatik vom Mittelpunkte der Christo- 

 logie aus " (3 parts, 1866). 



TISZA, KOLOMAN DE, a Hungarian states- 

 man, was born December 16, 1830. In 1848 

 he received an appointment in the ministry of 

 education, but after the revolution he made a 

 trip through the Continent. In 1855 he was 

 elected second curator of the Protestant Semi- 

 nary of Nagy Szalonta. In the Convention of 

 Debreczin he attracted general attention by his 

 bold opposition to the patent of 1859, by which 

 Count Thun threatened the independence of 

 the Protestant Church of Hungary. In 1861 

 he was elected to the Hungarian Diet from 

 Debreczin, where he took the place of his 

 uncle, Count Teleki, as leader of the Left Centre, 

 and worked with Deak up to 1866. In that 

 year he united himself with the opposition on 

 the Left, and agitated for a separation of Hun- 

 gary from Austria, for an independent Hun- 

 garian army, and separate finances. He grad- 

 ually changed his position again, and, having 

 effected a reconciliation with the government, 

 was appointed Minister of the Interior in the 

 Ministry Wenckheim, in March, 1875. He was 

 soon after unanimously reflected to the Diet 

 from Debreczin, which has always been the 

 chief seat of the ultra-Magyar opposition to 

 Austrian rule. When Wenckheim resigned, in 

 October, 1875, Tiszawas appointed prime-min- 

 ister in his place. 



TOLDY, FBANZ, a Hungarian author, born in 

 Buda, August 10, 1805; died December 10, 

 1875. He studied first philosophy and then 

 medicine, in the University of Pesth. At the 

 same time he paid considerable attention to the 

 literature of his native country. Among his 

 first works is a Hungarian translation of Schil- 

 ler's " Robbers," published in 1823. He turned 

 his attention afterward more to works per- 



