The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-26

The organized militia of the state con-
sists of twenty infantry and two artillery
companies and about eight hundred and
fifty men.
Lake City is steadily building up-two
2-stOry brick business houses are in
sight and several handsome residences
just completed
The Jacksonville and Mayport railroad
hobs up again in the courts, where it has
been off and ON for two years. 1t is the
old case of John n. G. Stockton, in his
own right, and as trustee, and as admin
istrator of the estate Of Alexander Wal
lace, deceased, and Thomas p. Denham VS..
Archer Hartman, to whom Horace Scott,
James A. Russell and David NJ. Youmans
on March 10 last transferred their inter
est. A petition for receiver was sub
mitted to Judge Call at Summer Haven,
St. Johns county, where he is spending a
few days, on Saturday, and he appointed
n. B. Broward, sheriff, as receiver, and or
dered him to take possession of the little
railroad and the steam ferry, in Jackson
vile, and hold them until the case could
be heard in that city on the 29th inst.
Sheriff Broward in accordance with this
mandate took possession of the property
Monday noon, and placed his agents and
deputies in charge of the same. Mr..
Stockton claims that the road is indebted
of Florida, and others for whom he is
agent, for large sum of money for ma
terial, purchase of the road etc, and
hence the suit now begun anew.
In the Florida state building, on the
worlds fair grounds, and also at the
corner of Sixtieth street and Stony Island
avenue, in Chicago, e. A. Waddell, a Key
West merchant is selling small boxes of
sand from Columbus landing place at
Watling's island. Last January MIR. Wad-
dell hired a small schooner, the Fearless,
at Key West, and, in company with a
friend and a photographer, set sail for
Nassau, in the Bahamas. At Nassau he
hired a cotton schooner, the Trackless
and sailed away for Watling's island.
He had read in the Chicago Herald of the
monument at Columbus landing place
and conceived the idea that there
would be a market for sand, if it were
the right kind of sand, at the
worlds fair On arriving at Watling's
Island Mr. Wadden soon located the mon
ument. Laborers were set at work filling
up the schooner with sand from the i'm
mediate vicinity of the monument.
A local magistrate was engaged
to certify that the sand was taken
from the identical spot where Co
lumbus is believed to have first landed in
America. The photographer took views
OF Jle monument ana the Wa0Qell eXpedi-
ton in its search for relics. On February
- the TraCkless, loaded with the desired
material, cleared for Nassau, The cargo
was there transferred TO the schooner
Fearless and conveyed to Key West.
Later Mir. Waddell shipped the sand to
New Orleans by steamer and thence to
Chicago by rail. He secured a booth in
the Florida state building and put his
wares on sale, The enterprise was en-
| tirely private speculation and, accord
good one. The boxes in which
! the sand is sold are unique af.
| fairs. On the outside of the cover is a
reduced photograph of the Herald mouu-
ment and the Waddell expedition in the
| act of discovering it. On the inside of
! the cover is a picture of the landing of
| Columbus. A glass lid covers the sand in
| the box. On the bottom of the box there
! is Photographic copy of the certificate
! by a Wathng's Island magistrate as to
| the genuineness of the article in the box.
| The wording of this document is as fol-
| lows: Il hereby certify that the sand
and water obtained at Watling's Island
| by Messrs. Waddell and Huelsenkemp
| was from the spot on which Christopher
| Columbus was supposed to have landed
! in 1893, which place is named Polly Hill.
| Dated at Cockburntown, Watling's Is
! land, the 18th of Feb. 1898. Barclay Cor
| RE, resident Justice" Facing Mr.
| Waddell's booth in the Florida building
! there hangs framed photograph Of the
magistrate who gave this certificate. Be
| sides the sand Mr.. Waddell offers to relic
! hunters a uniqne collection of marine
| curiosities.