Thanks Giving Proclamation

State of Michigan, EXECUTIVK DEPAKTMENT. ) To the People of the State of Michigan : In accordancewith acustom honored in its obsebancs, I hereby desígnate Thursday, November 2(i, as a day of Thanksgiving. Upon that day let all secular business be laid aside, and the day be devoted to exercises and reoreation suitable to the occasion. Keligious and political j ference- of opinioa should beforgotten, I and as citizens oí a common country, alike interested in upholding its honor and maintaining its laws, let us assemble in our houses of worship, and in grateful recognition of the manifold ' blessings Providence has sliowered npon us, reverently thank (iod for the peacs and prosperity which have fallen . to our lot. The poor and unfortunate should not be forgotten, and acts of kindnes done to those who do not share in the abundance which has blessed us as a people, will prove that it is indeed more blessed to give than to receive, and make more joyous the reunions about the family hearthstones. Given ander my hand, and the Great Seal of the State, at the Capítol, in Lansing, this ninth day of November, in the year ofN our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the United States. the one hundred and twenty-first. JOHN T. R(CH, Governor. By the Governor: Washington Gabdnek, Sec. of State.