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TERRIEB 310 TERRY terriers kept as companions the Skye is probably the most common. The black- and-tan, though an ancient breed, has been supplanted by the white English terrier. Japan gives us the shan-shong, resembling the Skye, and malta, a tiny terrier with long silky hair like a Blen- heim spaniel. The toy terrier is a cross from the black-and-tan, as is the York- shire terrier. Both varieties are fit only to be used as house dogs and are not true terriers. TERRITOBY, a term applied in the United States to an area similar to a State of the Union, but not having the independent position of one. The unor- ganized Territories are under the direct control of Congress. Each organized Territory has a governor, appointed by the President for four years, and ratified by the Senate. The Legislature, of- ficially known as the Legislative As- sembly, is composed of a council and a house of representatives, chosen every two years by the people. A delegate to Congress is elected for the same term. He has the right of debate, but not a vote in the House. Territorial legislation is subject to Congressional control. Ter- ritorial courts are provided for, the judges of which are appointed by the President for four years, and confirmed by the Senate, and over which the Su- preme Court of the United States has appellate jurisdiction. Territories are usually admitted as States on attaining a sufficient population. Territories are now administered according to their spe- cial requirements, especially in the case of those of recent acquisition, viz. the Panama Canal Zone (1904) and the Virgin Islands (1917). TERROR, REIGN OF, the term usually applied to the period of the French revolutionary government from the appointment of the revolutionary tri- bunal and the committee of public safety (April 6, 1793) to the fall of Robespierre (July 27, 1794). TERRY, ALFRED HOWE, an Ameri- can military officer; born in Hartford, Conn., Nov. 10, 1827; studied law at Yale College and began its practice in 1848. From 1854 to 1860 he was clerk of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Connecticut. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was colonel of a regiment of militia, which was mustered for the United States service in the first call for volunteers with Terry still at its head. In April, 1862, he was made a Briga- dier-General of volunteers, and served in the operations about Charleston, and in the siege operations at Forts Wagner and Sumter. He commanded a divisioa in the Virginia campaign of 1864, having command of a corps from May to July. He was in charge of the expedition which captured Fort Fisher in January, 1865, for which he was made a Major-General of volunteers, and Brigadier-General in the regular army, receiving also the thanks of Congress. In March, 1865, he was placed in command of the 10th Corps, and in June, of the Department of Virginia. From 1869 to 1872 he was at the head of the Department of the South, and after 1872 had charge of vari- ous divisions and departments of the army. In March, 1886, he was promo- ted to the major-generalship, made va- cant by the death of General Hancock, and in the following April took command of the Department of the Missouri. He retired in 1888, and died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 16, 1890. TERRY, ELLEN ALICE, an English actress; born in Coventry, England, Feb. 27, 1848, and made her first appearance on the stage during Charles Kean's Shakespearian revivals in 1858, playing the parts of Mamillius in "The Winter's Tale" and Prince Arthur in "King John." When only 14 she was a member of Mr. Chute's Bristol Company. She reap- peared in London, March, 1863, as Ger- trude in "The Little Treasure," and till January, 1864, played Hero in "Much Ado About Nothing," Mary Meredith in "Our American Cousin," and other sec- ondary parts. In that year she married Watts, the painter, and left the stage, but reappeared again in October, 1867, in "The Double Marriage" at the New Queen's Theater, London. She after- ward joined Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft at the Prince of Wales' Theater, where she acted the part of Portia. On Dec. 30, 1878, she made her first appearance at the Lyceum, and, in conjunction vdth Mr. Irving, played in the longest runs ever known of "Hamlet," "The Merchant of Venice," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Much Ado About Nothing," She also appeared as Viola in "Twelfth Night," Henrietta Maria in "Charles I.," Camma in Tennyson's tragedy of "The Cup," Ruth Meadows in "Eugene Aram," as Marguerite in W. G. Wills' "Faust" (re- vived in 1849), as Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth," as Lucy Ashton in "Ravens- wood," as Queen Catherine in "Henry VIII.," as Cordelia in "King Lear," as Rosamonde in "Becket" (1893), as Imo- gen in "Cymbeline" (1896); as Madame Sans-Gene (1897); and in "Peter the Great" (1898). She accompanied Mr. Irving on his numerous American tours, playing with unprecedented success all