Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-17
MEMORIAL-DAY.
President OldGeld skipped to Avoid Trial
One Thousand COming-Oyster
Traffic Next Fall
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispa'ch.l

Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
NORFOLK. May lG, 1890.
MemOrial-day was observed IN Ports
mouth to-day with the usual ceremonies
md immense attendance OF people from
both cities. Flags were flying at half mast
and busineSs-hOuses closed IN the after
noon. All the military companies and
Confederate veteran camps of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, with Farr9gut Post, Grand
Army Of the Republic. united III the
demonstration. The exercises took place
at the Confederate monument, on Court
street. which monument was erected IN
memory Of the three hundred and eighty
five Confcderates of Portsmouth and Nor
folk county killed during the war. The
memorial address was delivered by Rev.
George W. Mray. pastor OF Central Meth
odist Episcopal church. and other min
isters took part. At the closo of the cx-
ercises the procession. headed by the Naval
Post Band, proceeded to Cedar Grove
cemetery and fired three yolleys over the
dead in the Confederate Veterans lot.
All three of the cemeteries were elabOrately
decorated with floral offerings.
JUDGE oLDFTELD GONE.
Information around the City Hall to- day
leaves little room 10 doubt that Judge
George 5. Oldfeld, president of the de-
an accessory 10 the disastrous failure, has
skipped 10 avoid trial
That he Is missing IL beyond question,
but his friends do not think that be IS try
inc 10 avoid the issue, although strictly
speaking he is not under boud, and they
claim that he will return shortly.
The recently sunkcn schooner Frank
Pratt Lee will be towed TO Baltimore to-
morrow for repairs.
NORFOLK POLITICS.
Captain John Il. Ludlow has withdrawn
rs a candidtte for mayor. This leaves the
field free 20 the regular nominee OF the
primary II is not believed tho Repubii-
cans Will take any part in the election eX-
cent in the darky stronghold, the Fourth
Ward, where as usual the colored element
will run for the Council.
Pickett-Buchanan Camp has completed
all arrangements for going to Richmond as
a regimental organization. At the meeting
last night Mr.. r. ID. Van Wyck, owner OF
the Academy of Music, gave the camp
$500 10 assist in defraying the expense OF
the trip. Ii is estimated that not less than
a thousand people will 90 from this section
to the unyellng.
A Mrs. Kavanaugh, who recently came
here from Richmond. was found dead in
her room last night at No. 304 east Main
street. where she boarded. Her husband,
who is a machinist, left Norfolk for Rich
mond on Wednesday last.
Commodore William NJ. Folger, chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance, arrived from
Washington and inspected his department
at the nayy-yard Yesterday.
WITHDRAWN.
The Independent Fire Company of Ports
mouth has adopted a resolution with
drawing from the Virginia State Firemen's
Association, which meets N Alexandria
next month, and will establish beneficial
organization among themselves.
The largest oyster-packers, Gamers, and
lime-burners in Baltimore and other parts
of Maryland have leased and bought ex-
tensive wharf property at Elizabeth City
for opening up the oyster traffic of the
Carolina sounds on an extensive scale THIS
fall. Several Norfolk packers have also
located there, and next season Will see
thousands Of hands employed in the oyster
industry at that point.