The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
OFFICIAL CANVASS OF ELECTION
IN NEW YORK CITY AND
STATE COMPLETE.
CleVeland's Plurality in the City
43,O64; In the State Esti-
mated Officially 1147
No Effort on the Part of the
Republicans to Gainsaay
the Result.
Grand Parade and JOlIlficatlOn
at Nashville over the Off
cial Announcement.
CANVASSING THE RETURNS

Meet ng and Proceedings of the Board of
Supervisors.
J NEW YORK, November 15.-The
board of supervisors met in the alder
manic chamber at 10 o'clock this
morning, and resumed the work of
canvassing the vote of New York
county.
The fifteeeth assembly district was
completed without any material
change from the original count.
In one OF the election districts of
the sixteenth assembly district, a
slight error was discovered and the
vote Of the district was referred to
the committee on corrected returns.
Otherwise there was no change in the
count of the sixteenth district which
was complied.
The seventeenth assembly district
was completed at IL :45 a. m.
The count of the first district of the
eighteenth assembly district was OBJ
jected to on the ground that the total
number of votes, as read, was shown
to be 1893; whereas, it was claimed that
226 votes were really cast in the dis
trict, and that the republican electoral
ticket received eighty-one votes in
stead of fifty-four, as was re-
corded. The vote of the first election
district was therefore referred to the
committee on corrected returns. The
twenty-frst election district of the
eighteenth assembly district was
reached without the discovery of any
other errors. The canvass of the
eighteenth assembly district was fin
ished at noon. No other errors were
found than the one in the first election
district.
The nineteeth assembly district was
completed without incident. 1t was
resolved to request the committe on
corrected returns to give preference
to the electoral ticket canvass.
The canvass OF the returns of the
twentieth assembly district was COM
pleted at 1920 without any objection
being made.
In the twenty-iirst assembly district
no objections and no changes were
made. Five defective ballots
and four blanks were found.
The board of canvasSers' vote on the
presidential ticket in the first as
sembly district gives: Blaine 2275;
Cleveland, 4263; Butler, 96; st. John,
Is.
The fifteenth assembly district COM
plete gives Blaine, 4,172; Cleveland,
6,446; Butler, 215: st John, A.
The sixteenth assembly district,
complete, gives Blaine 2,718; Cleve-
land, 5,319; Butler, 1877; st. John, II.
The returns from the twenty second
assembly district were canvassed with
out change. There were ten defective
and seven blank votes.
,Hho returns for the twenty-third
district were cangassed without any
change.
The seventeenth assembly district,
complete, gives Blaine 5,265; Cleve-
land, 6,395; Butler, 2l4; st. John, 81.
The Eighteenth assembly district:
Blaine, 2,785; Cleveland, 1858; Butler,
209; st. John, 25.
Nineteenth assembly district gives
Blaine 1880; Cleveland, $3.50; Butler,
1852; st. John, Sc.
New York City Complete.
The Board of Canvassers completed
the canvass of 712 election districts of
this city this evening. The first cleo
tion district of the eighteenth assembly
district, by error, returned 81 votes for
the Blaine electors, when the number
should have been 81. The committee
on elections will rectify the error, and
report in favor of 81 votes Monday
morning. With that return in, the
the official vote OF the lowest demo-
cratic elector in this city is 1873, ,157 and
for highest republican elector 90,O93,
giving the lowest Cleveland elector a
plurality of s43,O64.