Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — THE WORLD AT LARGE. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD AT LARGE.

The following proclamation has been issued by the President: The goodness and the mercy of God which have followed the American people during all the days of the last year claim their grateful recognition and humble acknowledgment. By His omnipotent power He has protected us from war and pestilence, and from every national calamity; by His gracious favor the earth has yielded a generous return to the labor of the husbandman, and every path of honest toil has led to comfort and contentment; by His loving kindness the hearts of our people have been replenished with fraternal sentiment and patriotic endeavor; and by His unerring guidance we have been directed in the way of national prosperity. To the end that we may, with one accord, testify our gratitude for all these blessings, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 24th day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by all the people of the land. That day let all secular work and employment be suspended, and let our people assemble in their accustomed places of worship and with prayer and songs of praise give thanks to our Heavenly. Father for all that He has done for us, while we humbly implore the forgiven-ss of our sins and a continuance of His mercy. Let families and kindred be united tuat day, and let their hearts, filled with kindly cheer and affectionate reminiscences, be turned in thankfulness to the source of all their pleasures and the Giver of all that makes the day glad mid joyous. And in tue midst of our prosperity and happiness let us remember the poor, the needy, and the unfortunate, and by our gifts of charity and ready benevolence let us increase the number of those who with grateful hearts shall join in our thanksgiving. The Hou’o of Bishops of the P. E. Church, at its meeting at Philadelphia, elected the Rev. Abiel Leonard, of Atchison, Kam, Bishop of the new jurisdiction of Nevada and Utah, and the Rev. J. 8. Johnson, of Mobile, Ala., Missionary Bishop of Western Texas. In a sculling race on Lake Maranacook, Maine, Teemer easily outrowed Gaudaur, making the threo miles in 20 minutes 28% seconds. A member of the Legislature of Nova Scotia has been expelled from that body for generously hiring carriages to convey voters to the polls. Gen. J. Hale Sypher, attorney for George H. Thobe, who is contesting Mr. Carlisle’s seat, has filed his brief, says a Washington telegram. It assorts that Thobe was elected by 600 majority. This result is found by rejecting about 1,0.0 votes cast for Carlisle and about 200 votes cast for Thobe, which were polled at precincts where it is claimed the laws of Kentucky were not observed.