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Show I FLO HI DA. Tallahassee, 2. The day was takou up mostly by final testimony before the board. Each sido filed specifications specifica-tions of contest in several counties', and made replication to the charges oil certain other counties. Only one new or notable point wusraiacd," being in Manatee county, where the clerk, by law the registering oibcer, resigned a week, or so before tho election. The governor accepted his resignation at once, and tho county was thus left without a clerk. Some citizens attempted at-tempted to register with a deputy clerk, who declined to take their names. A now clerk was appointed by telegraph, but for reasons, stated difi'erently by each, did not qualify before the election was over. The election was held, however, the registry regis-try list of the year before boing used, and each voter taking tho usual registry regis-try oath huiore a justice of tho peace, who officiated in lieu of the clerk. The republicans ask that the county be throwu out, as the election was irregular, and as their voters in the county, not behoving an eluction would be held without Ihe clerk, did not go to the polls. The democrats ask that it be counted, as these voters exhausted ex-hausted their resources iu trying lo vote lawfully, and recited that a hundred hun-dred voters wore kept from voting, as only these on the registry list of former for-mer years felt it right to vote. The county is almost wholly democratic. Democratic managers to-day raised the point aa to the eligibility of Humphreys, Hum-phreys, republican candidate for elector, elec-tor, appointed shipping master at Peusacola, and holding that office when the election occurred. The , arguments of the two contestants will : be laid before the board on Monday, i A letter has been recived here from a member of the northern demo- eratic commissioH, now at New Or-, Or-, leans, staling that the secretary of i the national republican committee i had dispatched to Louisiana, South Carolina and .Florida, asking that the , words "iu pursuance of the laws ot i tho United Slates" be insetted iu the i electoral certificates. The democrats i here called tho attention of their committeen throughout the country . to this point, and suggested the insertion, inser-tion, and in addition iho words "and also in pursuance of the laws of the state." i New York, 2. Times Tallahassee: i Otlicial returns from Djde county : arrived to day, and were announced by. the chairman as showing nine , votes for Hayes to tivo fur Tildeii, mating a total majority for the re . publicum ticket in the whole stale ol ; forty-seven ou tho face of the returns. , One precinct in Dade county wai . throwu out by the county canvassers . for irregu uri'y, but it gave Haven . fivo majority. To-day tho democrats ; brought forward liclton, justice of tho L peace at Archer preciuct, to sustain i the testimony of the inspector of ) Archer precinct, that ho never signed I or swore to tho correctness of the r return that was forwarded. The . democrats bavo kept Bclton I under cover since hia arrival hero and four of them accompanied ( turn before Itie board to-day. They - thought thev had him sure, and tue , republicans thought there would be , more taught te.-liinony to counteract, bul to too not miebnicut of tho d rao-crats, rao-crats, aiur being sworn and tukwig , the witiitM tUnJ, instead of corroixjr- ating Duke, ho lcliticd that luke . did swear to the correctness of the , rtun.s and aultioriu-d him (Helton) i to affix his name lo Iho ulbJavil, Dukes making Ins mark. ll u thought now tiie dtm.crffls will drop Arch' r precinct. |