Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-06
DEFAULIiNG STATE. OFFiCIii
\ Reported Deficit of $4,000 In the
Treasury OF Sennensee.

| a reported Deficit of 100000 In the
| Treasury OF tennessee.
In Nashville, Tenn, the Joint legSs;
tive committee appointed to investigate
| the Office of the state treasurer reported
that the treasurer had been out OF the city
| for two days, and that his clerk vas not
prepared to make u statement OF his ac-
| counts. The committee reported a deficit
| III the treasury Of $4O0, 900, and, after ii
| consultation with the bondsmen of tic
| treasurer, recommended q suspension of
the business of lis oilice for tho present
The Senate adu,'tcd tho following Join,
| resolution
WHEREAS, tho Senate has reason to Eo
licsc that NJ. i. Polk, the present treas
urer, is q defaulter for about 500, 600, ,.rd
whereas, the bond given by SAID officer i,
| not sufficient in amount to cover *a'i 30
ticit, therefore be il
Resolred by the Srnatc and House OF
representatives, that the attorney general
oi the state be ard is hereby instructed to
attach all the available assets belonging u
said NJ. T. Polk, provided that sufficient
grounds exist, aud that the same may be
held for the satisfaction of said deficits.
The state tfcaSurcr's official bond was
for $4,000 His bondsmen are William
II. ard a II. Duncan, of Newell, Duncan
II Co.. bankers a; Max Sax, cashier Of the
Nashville s:ivnMS bank VIM. Morrow,
former state treasurer VIII Polk and j.
= X. Carpenter, all Of Nashville, and J
X. Polk, +. Il. -. Allison and II. u. Cole,
of West Trnrcssce, aud A. ). IIorslcy, Of
Columbia
At tho last extra session of the Lesisla-
tHrc bill was introduced to increase the
and (,t he f.,.f l,,,+ In
was stolen from the desk Of the clerk of
the Senate tho night before it was to come
up for final passage, on the day before tho
timo fixed for tho final adjournment of
the Legislature.
The state funds were distributed iii
various banks at Nashville, Knoxville and
Memphis. The missing funds are sup.
posed TO have been lost in speculation or
loaned to personal friends engaged in
speculation in bonds and stocks.
Treasurer Polk left Nashville on Wed.
nesday, and was last heard of at Milan,
Tenn, trum which point he wrote back
that he would return on Sunday. He is
81 years old, a graduate cf West Point,
and served four years Oh the frontier. lie
was captain Of artillery in the COnfcGel ate
army, in Chetham's division, ard lost a |
leg at the battle of Shiloh. lie was a |
nephew of the late President Polk. He |
has large family, and occupied a high |
social position in the city AID state.
An ImPend,n: Contest.
Henry s. Harris, congressman from The
Fourth district of New Jersey, has noti-
fled Congrcssmanelect Howey that he
will contest the latter's seat in the next |
Congress. Tho grounds of the contest |
are :" that money was use to bribe voters :, |
that money was used for Howey that had
been collected Of United States officials !:
that men who would have voted for Uar-
ris were intimidated into voting for
HoWey. or from voting at all that votes
cast for Harris were not counted for him
and that many who supposed they
were voting for Harris were, by the use
Of deceptive ballots, made 10 vote for
Howey"
MORO Appointments by Pattison.
1t is understood that Governor elect Pat
Fison will appoint Charles L. Wolff, one of
the department clerks in tho controllers
,ftice, to the position of governors execu-
i've clerk, at salary of $4,000 year,
Ind Samuel Painter, controllers messen-
ger, to be messenger to tho governor, at q
salary of $1,000. Mr.. VOLTS present
salary is 81, 200 and Mr.. Painters $500.
War Ships nlustering for Emergencies.
The U. S. ship Alaska has been ordered
o Honolulu, to he there at the time Of
King kalakaua's coronation. The Lack
wanna, now at Honolulu, will remain
here and it is thought the Wachusett will
70 ordered thither. War ships will be
rdered thither. War ships will be sent
0 Honolulu by the other principal naval :
overs. The avowed object is to pay , J.,
ourtesy to the King, but it is understood
hat 1.-The real object is to protect foreign
,terests in case of trouble, which may
rise from opposition to the extravagant
for the coronation" {
Domestic Horrors q,
A wo-year-old son of David Woods, f
'siding at Martha, Centre county, seized | h
bottle containing creosote, which was U
cling applied to his aching tooth, and be. S
re he could be prevented the child drank f
portion of the liquid and died soon after. S