MACUL'LA. A town of Arabia. Sec MA KALLAII.
MacVEAGH, mAk-vii', WAYNE (1833— ). An American lawyer and Cabinet officer. lle was horn at Phoenixville, Chester County, Pa., gradu ated at Yale in 1853, and was admitted to the bar in Westchester. Pa., in 1856. From 1859 to 1864 he was district attorney of Chester County. He became one of the Republican leaders in Pennsylvania, and was elected chairman of the State Central Committee of that party in 1863. He also attained great distinction at the bar. In 1870-71 he was United States Minister to Turkey. and in 1871 led the fight in Republican State politics Simon Cameron, his father-in law. In 1872-73 he was a prominent member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. In 1877 he was chairman of the •MacVeagli Com mission,' sent by President Hayes to represent him unofficially in Louisiana, and secure an amicable adjustment of the political differences in that State. In March. 1881, he entered the
Cabinet of President Garfield as Attorney-Gen eral, hut resigned on the accession of President Arthur, and resumed his law practice. He sup ported Cleveland for the Presidency in 1892, and from 1893 to 1897 was Ambassador to Italy. In 1896 and 1900, however, he again supported Re publican candidates.
IVIacWHIRTER. mitk-whZete'r, :roux (1839 —1. A Scotch painter, horn at Inglis Green, near Edinburgh. He ran away from home and became a pupil of the art school of the Board of Manufacturers, Edinburgh. Ruskin praised his sketches of flowers, and used them in his Oxford class. The most characteristic of his works are his noble Highland landscapes. In 1869 he took up his residence in London, and in 1877 made a visit to the United States, where he executed some notable studies of Californian scenery.