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MORGAN CITY. A city and port of entry in Saint Marj' Parish, La., about 75 miles west by south of New Orleans, on the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is on the Atchafalaya Bayou, navigable for vessels of light draught, which extends from Grand Lake to the Gulf of Mexico, 20 miles dis- tant; has regular steamship communication with important Gulf ports, and has extensive sugar, fish and oyster, and truck gardening interests. The city contains an interesting geological and botanical garden in Oneonta Park. Morgan City was formerly known as Brashear City. Here, on June 23, 18(33, Richard Taylor, with about 3000 Confederates, captured the Federal garrison of about 1000, secured property worth about .$2,000,- 000, and recaptured a large number of refugee blacks. Brashear was soon afterwards abandoned by the Confederates and reoccupied bv the Fed- erals. Population, in 1890, 2291 ; in 1900, 2332.
MOR'GANFIELD. A city and the county-
seat of Union County, Ky., 25 miles southwest
of Henderson, on the Illinois Central Railroad
(Map: Kentucky. D 3). It has tobacco steni-
meries, and manufactories of carriages and
wagons, brick, flour, etc. Saint Vincent's Acad-
emy (Roman Catholic) is here. The water-
works are owned and operated bv the city. Popu-
lation, in 1890. 1094; in 1900. 2046.
MORGANTE MAGGIORE, mSr-gan'ta nia-
jo'ra, II. a metrical romance bv Luigi Pulci
(q.v.).
MOR'GANTON. A town and the county-
seat of Burke County, N. C, 79 miles west of
Salisbury, on the Southern Railroad (Jlap:
North Carolina, A 2). It is the seat of the
State Hospital for the Insane and of the North
Carolina School for the Deaf and rhimb, and
has considerable reputation as a health resort.
Among the principal manufactories are cotton
mills, tanneries, lumber mills, and machine
shops. There are gold deposits in the vicinity.
Population, in 1890, 1557; in 1900, 1938.
MOR'GANTOWN. A city and the county-
seat of Monongalia County, VV. Va., 102 miles
south of Pittsburg. Pa., on the Monongahela
Kiver, which is navigable to this point, and on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Map: West
Virginia, E 2). It has a fine court house, and i*
the seat of the West Virginia University ( q.v. ) ,
established in 1868. There are glass works,
furniture factories, woolen, planing, and flour
mills, and brick and tile works. The eity is in
a rich agricultural, timber, natural gas, and
mineral country coal, iron, limestone, clay, and
glass sand being found in paving quantities.
Population, in 1890, 1011; in 1900, 1895.
MORGARTEN, mor'giir-ten. A mountain
slope on the boundary of the cantons of Schwytz
and Zug, Switzerland, celebrated as the scene of
a great victory won by the Swiss forest cantons
over a numerically superior force of Austrians,
November 15, 1315. In January, 1314, the farm-
ers of Schwytz had seized the Abbey of Einsie-
deln, robbed it of its treasures, and driven out
the monks. Frederick the Fair, head of the
House of Hapsburg, who was the protector of
Einsiedeln, ordered his brother, Duke Leopold,
to punish the guilty ones. The battle was the
result.
MORGEN, mor'gen, Kurt ( 1858—) . A Ger-
man soldier and explorer, born at Neisse (Si-
lesia), Prussia. He was educated for the army
at Wahlstatt and Berlin, and in 1889 took charge
of an expedition for the exploration of Kamerun.
On November 5 he left Kribi on the coast of
Batanga. He discovered the Mbam River, the
principal tributary of the Sanaga, and proceeded
along the Sanaga as far as Malimba. On .June
2, 1890, he again set out from Kribi. During
this second expedition he penetrated to Tabati,
and thence to Ibi on the Benue, from which point
he descended the river to Akassa, on the coast.
In 1896-97 he fought with the English army
against the Mahdi. and in the latter year wit-
nessed the Graeco-Turkish War from the head-
quarters of the Ottoman army. He attained
the rank of major in 1898.
MORGENSTERN, mor'gen-st^rn, Christian (1805-67). A German landscape painter, born in Hamburg. He studied in his native city and at the Academy of Copenhagen, settled in 1830 at Munich, and acquired a reputation with his romantic views of the Bavarian and Aus-
