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THE TOASTS.

Then came the toasts, as follows :

The Day We Celebrate. Responded to by Comrade Surgeon Harold Snowden, surgeon Seventeenth Virginia infantry, Confederate States army.

The Infantry. Colonel Edmund Berkeley, colonel Eighth Virginia infantry, Confederate States army.

The Artillery. Captain K. Kemper. First South Carolina artil- lery, Confederate States army.

The Cavalry. General William H. F. Lee.

The Navy. Captain S. B. Davis.

The Private Soldier. Comrade Alexander Hunter, Seventeenth Virginia infantry, Confederate States army.

A number of impromptu toasts were also responded to, and the evening was enlivened by yarns of camp life that brought forth peals of laughter.

THE ADDRESS.

The evening was closed by the reading of General Lee's Farewell Address to the army by Comrade Richard M. Latham.

NORFOLK.

Soon after sunrise flags and bunting were fluttering in the breeze from public and prominent private buildings. The day was observed as a holiday. At meridian the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, under Captain M. C. Keeling, fired a salute of eighty-four guns from New- ton's Wharf.

THE PARADE.

Later the Norfolk City Guard, Lee Rifles, Old Dominion Guard, Portsmouth Rifles, Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, under command of Colonel C. A. Nash, of the Fourth regiment, Picket-Buchanan Camp under Commander T. S. Garnett, the Fire Department under Chief- Engineer Thomas Kevill, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Typographical Union formed on City- Hall avenue, and headed by the police force and Norfolk City Band made a parade of