Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-13
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE COUNT GOES ON Without Showing Any
 Material Change F0RTY-FIVE COUNTIES IN. New York The Real
 Battle Ground. THE CORN AND COTTON YIELD As Shown By The NOveIm-.
 ber Returns.
THE CORN AND COTTON YIELD
THE ELECTION.

Second Day Of The COunt-The Work
 Going Slowly In New York City
 Colonel Bliss Hoping To Show That
 Four Thousand Votes Have Been
 Cast Fraudu1entIy For Cleveland
 The Showing Made By Forty-FiVe
 Counties.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The county board noon. There was a formidable array of counsel for both parties present, who closely watched the canvass The Hon. William M. Evarts, although not present, was within easy call of his colleagues. Ex-Senator Conkling was not present, and his absence was explained by one of the gentlemen pres ent, who said that he had been engaged to supervise the returns from the entire State and would not appear before the board of county canvassers. His headquarters are in the Hoffman House. Considera- ble distrust was manifested by the County Democracy members of the board over the combination made between the Republican and Tammany aldermen yesterday. Alder man Waite called the board to order, and af- ter the reading of yesterdays minutes Alder man Duffy opened the proceedings by hand Ing 1n 8 prOGoSG dRalnSG the O1 Iu0 votes cast for Adolph l.. Sanger for president of the board of aldermen, on the ground that the votes are illegal and void. This was fol lowed by protest from Alderman Riley of the County Democracy against any delay in canvassing the vote, saying it was the plain duty of the board to go on with the canvass at once, as provided by the statute, and that any willful neglect of the board in complying with said statute was felony and punishable by imprison- ment for not less than one or more than five years. The chairman then appointed a com mittee on protest and one on corrected Ie- turns The canvass was then proceeded with. The First Assembly district was the first to be taken up and gone over by election dis tricts The canvass was adjourned at 10 p. m. until morning. Up to this time the count of three out of the twenty-four Assembly districts had been gone over, and while sev- eral returns were referred to committees for correction of clerical errors, there was no material discrepancy revealed. In the third district one vote for Belva Lockwood was found and also one for 'Rum Romanism and Rebellion" On motion of Supervisor O'Neill the latter was counted for Blaine amid the laughter of the assem blaze.
 MT. Elkins was the only member ot the Republican National committee at the head quarters in the Victoria Hotel this morning. He was so busy, one of the attendants said, GQdG u0 udO uOb blIu6 IO SOO OI SHCoh WIGAA anybody. The attendant remarked that the committee is not surprised at the returns thus far from the various boards of canvas sers throughout the State. The committee had made no contest as yet The contests would be made in the counties of New York and Kings and then important developments would be the result of such action.
 All excitement has subsided at the head quarters of the Democratic National and State committees. Colonel Tracy said that up to noon no dispatch had been received by either committee containing any news bear ing on the returns from the various boards of canvassers
 Forty-fve out of the sixty counties in the State show net gain of eight for Blaine over the unofficial figures.
 The real fight is expected to be made in this city. The total number of votes which Colonel George Bliss, as counsel for the Re publicans, expects to take exception to in some form or other now amounts to 4,000. About one-third of these, it is claimed, are defective or blank ballots, and the rest are Butler, St. John and other votes which were miscounted, excluded or otherwise, it is claimed, aided to swell the Cleveland vote.