The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-03-20

was performed by the Archbishop of Can
terbury, assisted by several bishops. The
royal family was in full attendance, and a
throng of lords and ladies ef high degree.
The body of the chapel was occupied by
about one hundred and fifty ambassadors
and foreign ministers with their families,
cabinet ministers, members of the nobility,
and distinguished soldiers and sailors.
The Queen has commanded sketch of the
scene.
ALTHOUGH the ex-Empress Eugenie of
France was not successful in her suits to re-
cover from the Republic the Chinese Mu-
scum, and the Museum of Arms at the castle
of Pierrefonds, the civil tribunal OF the
Seine orders the restoration of all the works
of sculpture and paintings which do not
clearly belong to the State, the productions
of the State manufactures of Sevres, Cob
elins and Beauvais which the Emperor pur-
chased, the value of the private furniture
destroyed at the Tuileries, the arms of the
Emperor found at the Tuileries, seven
hundred aud six thousand francs for articles
at the State domain now missing, and
eighteen thousand seven hundred and
twenty francs for the domain at Chat
aiguefae.
THE lowest estimate of the disasters at
Szegedin now current fixes the number of
drowned at two thousand. Many persons
believe that four thousand perished, as the
gale prevented the majority of inhabitants
from hearing the first alarm. Some of the
largest houses fell Saturday. One is said to
have overwhelmed eighty probably eight
families and another ffty-six persons. Many
people were still ON the roofs of houses and
in the tops of trees. Diphth eria has broken
out among the fugitives in szeoged. Six
teen thousand horses and cattle, and ninety
thousand sheep have been lost. The water
falls very slowly, only receding three iuches
On Saturday night. The frost is causing
great suffering. Fearful tales are told of
individual distress. Women on beard the
rescuing steamers refused to part with the
corpses of their children. The refugees on
one of the embankments are eating seed
corn. Accouchements occur in the boats
and on railway trucks.
The embankments of the river Thesis
in Hungary gave way from
the force of food, and the
town of Szegedin was submerged. A
telegram says: "The flood with terrific
roar is rushing from two sides over Szegedin.
The horrors of the situation battle all
description. The town is in fact
destroyed. Two-thirds is now sub
merged, including the citadel, Post
Office, and telegraph Office. Whole rows of
houses are falling. The orphanage and
synagogue are destroyed. All the inmates
| of the former were buried in the ruins.
| Two manufactures are on fire. The in
habitants are flying to New Szegeding and
the more elevated parts of the town. The
municipality of Pesth is making every
effort to send assistance to Szegedin. Two
relief trains have started. Accommodations
for fugitives have been provided in the bar.
racks and public buildings of Pesth." The
London Standards Pesth dispatch says a
hundredsquare miles in the nelghborhood
of Szegedin are flooded. The crops in the
district are lost. The government sent
forty thousand forins for the relief of the
inhabitants. The radicals in the. Diet
violently attacked the government fol
neglecting to take precautions to prevent
the calamity. ,:.5 w.