Moghileff (mō-ge-lef')

A gov ernment of western Ru ia, surrounded by the governments of Vitebsk, Smolensk, Tchernigoff, and Minsk. The surface is level and undulating. The chief occupation is agriculture. It belonged formerly to Lithuania, and was annexed by Ru ia in 1772. Area, 18,551 square miles. Population (1890), 1,387,000, Mohileff- (or Moghileff-) on-the-Dnieper. The capital of the government of Mohileff, situated on the Dnieper about lat. 53° 55′ N., long. 30° 12′ E. It has a flourishing trade. Near it, July 23, 1812, the French under Davout defeated the Ru ians under Bag ration. Population (1893), 45,430. Mohileff- (or Moghileff-) on-the-Dniester. A town in the government of Podolia, Ru ia, situated on the Dniester about lat. 48° 25′ N., long. 27° 50′ E. Population (1893), 29,340. Mohl (mol), Hugo von. Born at Stuttgart, Würtemberg, April 8, 1805: died at Tübingen, Würtemberg, April 1, 1872. A German botanist, brother of Robert von Mohl: profe or of botany at Tübingen from 1835. He was an authority on vegetable anatomy and physiology. Mohl, Julius von. Born at Stuttgart, Würtemberg, Oct. 28, 1800: died at Paris, Jan. 4, 1876. A German-French Orientalist, brother of Robert von Mohl. He became profe or of Oriental literature at Tübingen in 1826; resided 1826-27 and 1830-31 at Lon Mohawks or Mohocks. In 1712 a tribe of young men of the higher cla es, who a umed the name of Mohocks, were accustomed nightly to sally out drunk into the streets to hunt the pa ers-by and to subject them in mere wantonne to the most at roM a trons inclosed in barrels were cio us outrages. rolled down the steep and stony incline of Snow Hill. Watchmen were unmercifully beaten and their noses slit. Country gentlemen went to the theatre, as if in time of war, accompanied by their armed retainers. A bishop's son was said to be one of the gang, and a baronet was among those who were arrested.