Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-07
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The WORLDS HOLIDAYS.

Days Celebrated In the United States and
Foreign Countries.
July "a, Pioneer day, is holiday in
Utah.
Sunday is a legal holiday in all the
states.
May 10 is Memorial day in North
Carolina, and is a holiday.
April 26, Memorial day, is observed
in the states Of Alabama and Georgia.
September 9, Admission day, is OBJ
served as legal holiday in California.
March 4 is legal holiday in New
Orleans. 1t is called Firemen's day.
July 4, Independence day, is legal
holiday in all the states Of the Union.
November 25 is Labor day in Louis
lana, and is a legal holiday in that
state.
In many parts of rural England,
Morris dances are still popular at
Whitsuntide.
Jubilees in the Roman church were
instituted by Pope Boniface VIII in
1900.
April 21, the anniversary of the
great battle of San .Jacinto, is Texan
holiday.
February 6, Mardi Gras, has been
made holiday in Louisiana and also
in Alabama.
A midwinter festival was known and
observed in Europe long before the
Christian era.
In almost all countries the birthday
of the reigning sovereign is regarded as
a popular holiday.
February ~, the birthday Of Presi.
dent Lincoln, has been made legal
holiday in Illinois.
June 8, the birthday of Jefferson
Davis, has been made legal holiday
in Florida.
Many towns in Europe have local
holidays, commemorative of some i'm
portant event in their history.
October 81, the day on which Neva-
da was admitted into the Union, is q
legal holiday in that state.
Every Saturday afternoon is legal
holiday in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Maryland.
"The Feast of the Supreme Being'
was a holiday established by the
French Convention for June 8, 1894.
New Years day is legal holiday in
all the states but Massachusetts, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island.
Fast days, whenever appointed by
the president of the United States,
are legal holidays in all the states.
The greatest celebration of the Feast
of Tabernacles was held B. G. 1904, at
the dedication of Solomon's Temple.
Bank holidays in Scotland are New
Years day, Christmas day, Good Fri
day, and the first Mondays in May and
August.
The Jewish feasts, those of Taber-
nacles, of Pentecost, of Trumpets and
Passover, were instituted by Moses, B.
G. 1890.
The most important annual holiday
at Babylon was in honor of Bel or
Belus. It was celebrated with human
sacrifices.
"The Feasts of Fools" was the name
given by the monks to the Christian
holiday which took the place of the
Saturnalia.
May 20, the anniversary of the sign
ing of the Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence, is legal holiday in
North Carolina.
December 25, Christmas day, is a
legal holiday in all the states, and in
South Carolina the two following days
are also holidays.
The British and German Druids had
festival that nearly corresponded, in
the time of its observance, to our
Christmas season.
The burning of the yule log in Eng
land is relic of the Scandinavian
worship of the god Thor. His feast
was called Yule, or Yuletide.
The Emperor Napoleon made his
own birthday, August Is, a holiday in
France, and facetiously called it the
"Festival Of st. Napoleon"
Thanksgiving day is observed in all
the states as popular holiday, though
in several states there is no statutory
provision to that effect.
The legal holidays in Massachusetts
are Washington's birthday, Patriots
day, Memorial day, 4th of July,
Labor day, Thanksgiving day, and
Christmas.