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732 WORSTED WOUVERMAN WORSTED. See WOOL, MANUFACTURES OF. WORT. See BREWING, vol. iii., p. 259. WORTH. I. A S. W. county of Georgia, bounded N. E. by Flint river and S. E. by Lit- tle river ; area, about 900 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 3,778, of whom 1,105 were colored. It is intersected by the Brunswick and Albany railroad. The surface is level and the soil sandy. The chief productions in 1870 were 81,194 bushels of Indian corn, 13,381 of oats, 24,219 of sweet potatoes, 16,665 Ibs. of wool, 4,568 of rice, and 2,051 bales of cotton. There were 476 horses, 2,888 milch cows, 6,708 other cattle, 5,596 sheep, and 10,541 Bwine. Capital, Isabella. II. A N. county of Iowa, bordering on Minnesota, and drained by Shell Rock river ; area, 432 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 2,892. The surface is undulating or level, and diversified by prairie and woodland. The chief productions in 1870 were 97,156 bushels of wheat, 49,472 of Indian corn, 71, 107 of oats, 9,161 of potatoes, 94,290 Ibs. of butter, 5,226 of wool, and 9,839 tons of hay. There were 846 horses, 1,809 milch cows, 2,110 other cat- tle, 1,590 sheep, and 1,365 swine. Capital, Northwood. III. A X. W. county of Missouri, bordering on Iowa, and drained by Grand riv- er; area, about 225 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 5,004. The surface is undulating, and comprises prai- rie and timber lands, in nearly equal propor- tion; the soil is generally fertile. The chief productions in 1870 were 29,576 bushels of wheat, 375,035 of Indian corn, 71,816 of oats, 81,393 of potatoes, 82,834 Ibs. of wool, 105,- 869 of butter, and 9,966 tons of hay. There were 2,827 horses, 6,349 cattle, 10,375 sheep, and 13,546 swine. Capital, Grant City. wiUM'll, a small town of Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, formerly of the French department of Bas-Rhia, 10 m. S. W. of Weissenburg. The French under MacMahon were utterly de- feated here, Aug. 6, 1870, by the Germans under the crown prince Frederick William. (See FRANCE, vol. vii., p. 395.) WORTH, William Jenkins, an American soldier, born in Hudson, N. Y., March 1, 1794, died in San Antonio, Texas, May 7, 1849. He entered the army as a private in 1812, became second lieutenant in 1813 and aide to Gen. Lewis, and in 1814 to Gen. Scott. At the battle of Chip- peva he won the brevet of captain, and at Lundy's Lane, where he was severely wounded, that of major. In 1815 he was made captain, and from 1820 to 1828 was instructor of in- fantry tactics and commander of cadets at West Point. He was made major of ordnance in 1832, and colonel of infantry in 1838. In 1840 he was sent to Florida, and in 1841 took the chief command against the Seminoles, bringing the war to a final close in 1842, when he was brevetted brigadier general. In the war with Mexico he greatly distinguished him- self in the battle of Monterey, in the capture of Vera Cruz, in the engagements of Cerro Gordo, Puebla, and Molino del Rey, and in the storming of the city of Mexico. For these services he was brevetted major general and received swords from congress, the state of New York, and his native county. In 1838 he had received a sword from Louisiana. After the war he was commander of the department of the southwest till his death. His remains rest beneath the memorial monument erected by the city of New York at the junction of Broadway and Fifth avenue. WOTTON, Sir Henry, an English author, born at Bocton hall, parish of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, April 9, 1568, died at Eton in December, 1639. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, left the university in his 22d year, and travelled several years on the continent. On his return to England ho became secretary to the earl of Essex, whom he accompanied to Spain and Ireland. When Essex was charged with treason in 1601, Wotton fled to France, and in 1602 was sent by the grand duke of Tuscany to warn King James of Scotland of a plot against his life. On the death of Queen Elizabeth he returned to England, and was knighted, and in 1604 was sent ambassador to Venice. He was recalled in 1610, was sent on a mission to the United Provinces in 1615, and in 1616 was reappointed to the Venetian embassy. From 1625 till his death he was provost of Eton college, having been ordained deacon in order to hold the office. He wrote " Elements of Architecture " (1624), " The State of Christendom" (1657), &c., but is best known now by his poems. His more impor- tant works are included in the Reliquiae Wot- toniance, published with his life by nis friend Izaak Walton in 1651 (enlarged ed., 1685). His poems have been edited by the Rev. Alexander Dyce (1843). WOTTON, William, an English author, born nt Wrentham, Suffolk, Aug. 13, 166G, died at Buxted, Essex, Feb. 13, 1726. Ho entered Catharine hall, Cambridge, before he was ten years old, graduated in 1679, and obtained various preferments. Ho is chiefly known for his " Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning" (London, 1694), which originated the controversy about the "Epistles of Pha- laris," and called forth Swift's " Battle of the Books." He also published "A History of Rome" (1701), and "Discourses relating to the Traditions and Usages of the Scribes and Phari- sees" (2 vols., 1718); and after his death were published " Discourse on the Confusion of Language at Babel," and Cyfreithjeu Hywel DDa ac Eraill, an edition of the ancient Welsh laws, with a Latin translation (1730). WOCVERMAN, Philip, a Dutch painter, born in Haarlem in 1620, died there, May 19, 1668. He was instructed by his father and by Wynants, and struggled with adversity while his works enriched the dealers. He is said to have de- stroyed all his studies for fear that they might induce his son to become a painter. He ex- celled chiefly in hunting parties and in horses, and nearly all his pictures contain either a white or a gray horse. His skies, foregrounds,