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 ORGAN 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-