Black Monday

Easter Monday, so called from the severity of the weather once on that day. Stow, under the year 1360, says, "And here is to be noted that the 14th day of April (6, new calendar) and the morrow after Easter-day, King Edward, with his host, lay before the city of Paris, which day was full dark of mist and hail, and so bitter cold that many men died on their horsebacks with the cold; wherefore, unto this day it hath been called the Black Monday." Lance lot, in the Mer chant of Venice, remarks, "Then it was not for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on Black-Monday last." In England, this name is also given by school-boys to the first Monday after the holidays. Black/-monks, n . pl . The BENEDICTINES, q. v. Black Mountain, in N. Carolina , a range extending about 20 m., and connecting with the Blue Mountains by an outlying ridge. Its highest elevation is Mitchell's Peak, 6,732 feet above the sea, being the most elevated land E. of the Mi i ippi.