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TENNEY, WILLIAM J. 



TEXA8. 



4. Sumner, Wilson, Macon, Trousdale, Smith, De 

 Kalb, Clay, Jackson, Putnam, Overton, Fentress, and 

 Pickett. 



5. Cannon, Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln, Moore, Mar- 

 shall, Bedford, and Kutherford. 



6. Davidson, Kobertson, Cheatham, Montgomery, 

 Stewart, Humphreys, and Houston. 



7. Williamson, Maury, Giles, Lawrence, Wayne, 

 Lewis, Hickman, and Dickson. 



8. Henry, Benton, Perry, Decatur, Hardin, Mc- 

 Nairy, Henderson, Madison, and Carroll. 



9. Weakley, Gibson, Crockett, Haywood, Lauder- 

 dale, Dyer, Obion, and Lake. 



10. Hardeman, Fayette, Shelby, and Tipton. 



TENNEY, William Jewett, an American jour- 

 nalist, born in Newport, R. I., in 1814; died 

 in Newark, N. J., Sept. 20, 1883. His father 

 was the Rev. Dr. C. J. Tenney, pastor of the 

 orthodox church in Newport, and his mother 

 was Ruth Ohanning. Mr. Tenney was gradu- 

 ated at Yale College in 1832, and studied 



JEWETT TENNEY. 



medicine in Boston, but turned his attention 

 to law, which he studied in New Haven, 

 Conn. After being admitted to the bar, Mr. 

 Tenney opened an office in New York city; 

 but soon after joined the editorial staff of 

 the "Evening Post," in which connection he 

 continued for two years. He completed Ben- 

 ton's " Abridgment of the Debates of Con- 

 gress " (left unfinished at Senator Benton's 

 death) ; edited the " Queens of England " 

 (1852) ; was editor of " The Mining Magazine," 

 monthly (1853) ; and was a contributor to 

 Hunt's " Merchants' Magazine." He was also 

 occupied with various other literary works, 



among which may be named " The Military and 

 Naval History of the Rebellion in the United 

 States " (New York, 1865). He was presiding 

 judge of one of the criminal courts of Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., for two terms, and during Mr. Bu- 

 chanan's administration he was collector of the 

 port at Elizabeth, N. J. 



Thirty years ago Judge Tenney accepted a 

 place in the establishment of D. Appleton & 

 Co., New York. The "Annual Cyclopaedia," 

 issued by this house (of which the present vol- 

 ume is the twenty-third in consecutive order), 

 was begun by him, and by him edited year by 

 year, from its inception to his decease. He 

 also did a large amount of other literary and 

 critical work. 



Judge Tenney was from time to time elected 

 a freeholder, and was a member of the City 

 Council of Elizabeth, N. J., for fourteen years. 

 He prepared the plan for organizing 

 the public-school system, and was 

 president of the board. Important 

 decisions also were constantly re- 

 ferred to him. 



He was twice married. His sec- 

 ond wife was a daughter of Orestes 

 A. Brownson. 



Judge Tenney was known to his 

 friends as a man of great purity 

 and excellence, as well as possessed 

 of clear intellectual power. He left 

 two sons and three daughters. 



TEXAS. State Government. The 

 State officers during the year were 

 the following: Governor, John Ire- 

 land, Democrat ; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, Marion Martin ; Secretary 

 of State, J. W. Baines ; Treasurer, 

 Frank R. Lubbock; Comptroller, 

 W. J. Swain; Attorney-General, 

 J. D. Templeton ; Commissioner of 

 Lands, W. C. Walsh; Commissioner 

 of Insurance, H. P. Brewster ; State 

 Engineer, J. H. Britton. Judiciary, 

 Supreme Court : Chief-Justice, Asa 

 H. Willie; Associate Justices, John 

 W. Stayton and Charles S. West. 



Legislative Session. The Legisla- 

 ture convened on January 9th, and 

 adjourned on April 13th. On Jan- 

 uary 23d, Richard Coke, Democrat, 

 was re-elected United States Sen- 

 ator without substantial opposition. Of the 

 700 bills introduced, about 150 became laws. 

 In reviewing the work of the session, the Gov- 

 ernor said : 



By the act to protect the wool-growing industry of 

 western Texas, a great enterprise is aided and encour- 

 aged. By the act organizing the judicial districts, the 

 disposition of business in the courts will be greatly 

 facilitated. The act to facilitate the collections of 

 claims from the General Government on account of 

 moneys expended hi frontier defense, will enable 

 Texas to reclaim money she should have had long 

 since. The railroad bill is a measure designed on the 

 one hand to satisfy a reasonable demand for a system 

 of supervision sufficiently extensive and minute as 

 regards the safe condition of road-beds and bridges, 



