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 TOMLINE TOMSK ed by the head streams of the Colorado river. This county, with Crockett, formed in 1875, has absorbed what was formerly known as Bexar district or territory. Capital, Ben Ficklin. TOMLINE, George, an English prelate, eldest son of George Pretyman, born in Bury St. Ed- munds, Oct. 9, 1750, died in Winchester, Nov. 14, 1827. He was educated at Cambridge, and in 1773 became tutor to William Pitt, who made him his private secretary on becoming chancellor of the exchequer in 1782, and his secretary when he became first lord of the treasury. Pretyman remained with Pitt till 1787, when he was made bishop of Lincoln and dean of St. Paul's. In 1820 he was trans- ferred to the see of Winchester. In 1803 he received by will an estate from Marmaduke Tomline, and assumed that name. He pub- lished " The Elements of Christian Theology " (2 vols. 8vo, 1799), which has passed through numerous editions ; "A Refutation of Calvin- ism" (1811); and "Memoirs of William Pitt" (3 vols. 8vo, 1821), "which," Macaulay says, "enjoys the distinction of being the worst biographical work of its size in the world." TOMMASEO, Nicolo, an Italian author, born in Sebenico, Dalmatia, about 1803, died in Flor- ence, May 1, 1874. He resided several years in Florence, wrote for the patriotic Antologia, went as an exile to France in 1833, and in 1838 settled in Venice. He was arrested with Manin in January, 1848, but they were res- cued in March by the people, and in August Tommaseo became minister of religion and education in the revolutionary government, and vainly attempted to procure French inter- vention in favor of the republic. After the restoration of Austrian rule in August, 1849, he was banished from Venice, resided in Corfu and Turin, and in 1865 finally returned to Flor- ence. His works include Nuovo dizionario del sinonimi della lingua italiana (Florence, 1832; 6th ed., 2 vols., Milan, 1867) ; Canti populari (2 vols., Venice, 1843) ; Studi critici (2 vols., 1843); Lettere di Pasquale de 1 Paoli, with Paoli's biography and a history of the war for Corsican independence (Florence, 1846); Nuovi studi su Dante (Turin, 1865) ; and Poesie (1872). TOMOMI IWAKURA, a Japanese statesman, born in Kioto about 1825. He is a Tcuge or court noble of the Murakami branch of the Minamoto family, and was a leader as well as the instrument of the conspiracy which effect- ed the Kioto coup d'etat of Jan. 3, 1868, over- throwing the shogunate, and establishing a government in which his class held the chief offices. (See JAPAN, vol. ix., p. 546.) In Au- gust, 1871, he was made minister of foreign affairs, and was active in the abolition of the feudal system and the retirement of the ex- daimios to private life. In December he left Japan as chief of the embassy which visited the United States and the principal capitals of Europe. On his return in September, 1873, he was made junior prime minister, which office he now holds (1876). He was active in 793 averting the threatened war with Corea in 1873. He has been especially distinguished for his advocacy of the introduction of the forms and improvements of western civiliza- tion, and he sent his sons to the United States to be educated. On the night of Jan. 14, 1874, while he was in his carriage near the mikado's palace, an attempt was made to assassinate him, but he escaped with several severe wounds. TOMPKDiS, a central county of New York, drained by several tributaries of Cayuga lake, the head of which lies in the N. part, and trav- ersed by several railroads; area, 506 sq. m.; pop. in 1875, 32,915. The surface is hilly, the valley of the lake being 700 ft. below the ridges on either side, and the soil is generally best adapted to grazing. Cayuga lake supplies water communication with the Erie canal. The chief productions in 1870 were 291,194 bushels of wheat, 422,411 of Indian corn, 737,741 of oats, 236,183 of barley, 143,917 of buckwheat, 273,941 of potatoes, 63,681 Ibs. of tobacco, 169,867 of wool, 62,390 of flax, 1,834,029 of butter, and 70,907 tons of hay. There were 8,804 horses, 16,402 milch cows, 11,369 other cattle, 35,372 sheep, and 7,462 swine; 11 manu- factories of agricultural implements, 24 of car- riages and wagons, 1 of cars, 7 of cheese, 1 of clocks, 12 of furniture, 3 of hubs and wagon material, 7 of iron castings, 4 of machinery, 1 of organs, 2 of printing paper, 6 of tobacco and cigars, 4 of woollens, 26 flour mills, 19 saw mills, 8 tanneries, and 5 currying estab- lishments. Capital, Ithaca. TOMPRINS, Daniel D., an American states- man, born at Scarsdale, Westchester co., N. Y., June 21, 1774, died on Staten island, June 11, 1825. He graduated at Columbia college in 1795, was admitted to the bar in New York in 1797, and in 1801 was a member of the legis- lature, and of the convention for revising the state constitution. In 1804 he was elected to congress from the city of New York, but re- signed to become one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the state. From 1807 to 1817 he was governor of New York, and he was conspicuous for his support of the na- tional government during the war of 1812. In 1812 he prorogued the legislature for ten months, to prevent the establishment of the bank of America in the city of New York. This measure gave him temporary popularity, but did not defeat the charter of the bank, which was passed in 1813. In a special mes- sage to the legislature, Jan. 28, 1817, he rec- ommended the abolition of slavery in the state of New York ; and an act for that purpose was accordingly passed, to take effect July 4, 1827. In 1816 he was elected vice president of the United States, and in 1817 resigned the gov- ernorship on assuming that office, to which he was reflected in 1820, retiring March 4, 1825. TOMSK. I. A government of western Siberia, bordering on Tobolsk, Yeniseisk, China, and the Central Asian provinces of Semipolatinsk and Akmolinsk, from which it is partly sepa-