The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-02-06
FRIDAY Is NOT AN UNLUCKY DAY.
To Begin With, Columbus Started Tor
America on Friday, and all Sorts OF
Favorable Events are Connected With
the Sixth Day of the Week.
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TSfOESDlS ENCutS aiN SVhhSSe>N ''--
the Sixth Day of the Week.
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He was an Enelishman, as history in
forms Us, who, being iconoclastlcally In
clined an an enemy OF superstition, rlsked
both his fortune and his iiiffe, and lost both,
in en- experiment. TO prove frllacloas the
moss.crown superstition concerning Fri
ay. It is related of this English man that
he lad the keel of his vesse, on a Friday,
lsu. cred her on Friday. christened her
Friday" took for her skipper named
Friday. set sail in her upon Friday, and
never vas heard of after that!
And yet inspite of superstition, Friday is
not an unlucky day. In fact. it can be
proved by the most important happenings
in the history of this and other countries
that Friday is the most fortunate day in
the week. For thirteen years past l have
been collating such important events as
have happened upon Fridays. Thirteen
wears ago put in print short list, but it
is now complete. I venture to say that
stronger proof cannot be submitted, and
ask you to cut it out and paste it in your
scrap-book. whele you may find it when
your heart weakeus with an attack of sn-
perStition.
On Friday, August 81, 1892, Christopher
Columbus first sailed upon his great voyage
of discovery from Palos. in Spain. On the
l1th day Of September, which happened
upon o Friday, while in mid-ocean, to the
Consideration Of his officers aud men. the
needle OF the compass ductuated and fell
off in an lnexplalnable manner, and 1t was
then that all but Columbus lost faith in the
enterprise. 1t was on Friday. October y,
1892, that Columbus first discovered land.
On Friday January 4th, 1893, he sailed on
his return to Spain where be landed 10
s,,ftey on Friday. Os Friday Nov. %
1892 be arrived at Hispaniola, on his Sec,
ond voyage to America. It was on Friday,
June IS, 1884, that be discovered the conti-
nent of Amtric.
Friday, September Z. 1906, Melendez
founded ST. Augustine. the oldest town in
the United States by forty years.
Friday, November 10, 1920, the May
flower with the Pilgrims, made the harbor
of Provincetcwn, and on the same day
signed the august compact, the forerunner
Of our present Constitution. On Friday,
December %, 1929, the Pilgrims made
their final landing on Plymouth Rock.
February 22.l732, in WeStmore!and county,
Va, uear the banks OF the Potomac river.
Bunker's Hill was seized and fortified Oh
Friday, June IL. l776.
Friday, October Z, l777, the surrender OF
Saratoga was made, which had such power
and influence in inducing France to &c.
clare herself in favor Of our cause.
Friday, September %, 17S0, Aruold's
treason WAS laid bare which saved US and
our country from destr lc.lou.
The surrender Of Yorktown. the Crown
ing glory OF the American army, occurred
on Friday, October 10, 1881.
Friday, July Z, l776, the motion was
made in Congress by John Adams and sec
onded by Richard Henry Lee that the
United Colonies were, and of right ought
to be, free and independent.
The first Masonic Lodge in North Amer
ica was organized on Friday, November 70,
1721.
Bismark. Gladstone and d'Israeli were
born on Friday.
Friday, April s, 1916, the first known
newspaper advertisement was published
Imperial IntelliGencer, in England.
Thomas Sutton, who saved England from,
the Spanish armada, was born on Friday.
Friday, July l, 1925, General Lafayette
was welcomed to Boston and feasted by the
Free Masons and citizens, and attended at
the laying of tie cornerstone at Bunker's
Hill of the monument erected to perpetu
ate the remembrance Of the defenders Of
the rights and libslties Of America.
Friday, December 2. 1871, the Albany.
n. Y, library was founded.
Friday. January IS. the Panama railroad
was completed.
Friday, June 80, 1861. Louis XI. hum
bled the French mobiles.
Charles The Bold" of Burgundy, the
richest sovereign of all Europe, vas born
Friday, January u.
The Hudson river was discovered on
Friday, March 25, l6O9.
On Friday, March IS, l776, the "stamp
act" was repealed in England.
Friday, November %. 1914, the first
newspaper ever printed by steam. the
London Times, was printed.
A!e1sndera Won Humboldt, in climbing
Chimborazo. reached an altitude of 1920
feet on Friday, June 12, 1902.
On Friday, Jauuary 13. l7S5, General
Winfield Scott was born in Dinwiddie
county, Va.
Friday, May Il, 1856, Gabriel Fahren-
heit, usually regarded as the inventor of
the common mercurial thermometer, was
born. 1t was he who first noticed that
water boils at different degrees OF tempera-
ture, according to the weight Of the atmos-
phe7ic column resting upon it-that is. it
requires less heat to make it boil on the
summit than at the foot of high noun
tain. Wherever the English language pre-
walls the gradation of Fahrenheit is gener-
ally preferred.
Friday, December rs, 1742, Sir Isaac
Newton, the illustrious philosopher. was
born.
Martin Luther was born on Friday, No
vember 10, 1913, at Eisleben. in the county
Of Mansfield, in Upper Sa1ony.
Friday, September 5, 1852, the first
American theatre was opened In Williams
burg, Va.
Friday. June 8, the first steam vessel
that crossed the Atlantic, the Savannah,
ssiled from Savannah to Liverpool.
George Stephenson. the father of rail
ways, was born on Friday.
The Great Eastern left the Irish coast to
lay the Atlantic cable on Friday. and
reached Hearts Content on Friday.
Queen Victoria was married on Friday.
The battle of Waterloo was fought, the
Bastile was destroyed, Moscow was burned
and the battle of New Orleans was fought
on Fridays.
In the war with Mexico the battle of Palo
Alto began on Fticay.
At the commencement of the Revolution
the oldest newspaper in the United States
was the American Weekly Mercury. pub
lished in Philadelphia, Pa, and its first is
sue was Friday, December %, l7l9.
On Friday. January l, 1S0S the impor-
tation OF slaves in the United States WAS
prohibited By Congress.
And thus history has recorded honors to