Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-31
nEnARKABLE ADVENTURES OF A
81 CORPSE.
serie. Of strange Contretemp=.


From the Washington Star.l
Not long since a native Of the Emerald
Isle. one OF the victims Of the late arsenal
explosion. died in this city, and Immediately
preparations were made 70 give him nice,
Tepteel funeral II was at first arranged that
he should I've buried here, but some Of his
kindred being buried at Parkersburg, West
Virginia, il was finally determined that what
remained Of poor JOHNNY NJ should be
sent 70 that place. Accordingly, after a
awake" Zone of the good old sort, the re.
mains were accompanied by his sorrowing
friends and relatives 10 the depot, to take
the cars for the place Of burial. The funer-
al procession arrived at the depot some time
before the departure Of the train In which
the remains were 10 60, and the mourners
spent the intervening time in assuaging their
sorrows at the neighboring bars, so abundant
inthat vicinity, the corpse acknowledgements
ing on the platform, ready to be placed on the
Or train. which would connect at the Relay
house with the western train. The party
meanwhile drank so many libations to the
memory Of the departed that they returned
to the station in very mellow eondi-
ton, and the railroad officers being appre-
hensive that they would be incapable Of
taking care of the corpse, autographed to the
Relay TO see that the corpse was taken off
at that point. Shortly before the time of
starting, the corpse was placed on the train,
and an attempt was made 10 muster the
mourners, when il was ascertained that one
or two Of them hadgot 20 obfusticated as 10
have taken the New York train. The rest
of the party, however, managed to get
aboard, and ere long Johnny Ms body
was again marched on At the Relay
the corpse was transferred to the western
train, but two or three of the mourners
were too far gone 10 get out in time, and 80
proceeded TO Baltimore, while the balance
Of the party, with the corpse, was hurried
on with extra speed westward. At the
points along the road where the engine
stopped "to water" the mourners as in
variably stopped to "wet," and not being
Up 10 time, quite as invariably brace or
more were leii behind at each watering and
wetting place, and by the time Grafton was
reached, where the corpse was TO change
ears for Parkersburg, but few OF the mouners
remained with IL, and these were 30 bewild-
cred that they failed TO get in the proper
train, and Johnny's corpse went TO Wheel
ing without them. From thence, by some
means, il was sent 10 Columbus, Ohio, the
corpse thus having got into the wrong State,
and the mourners being scattered through
Maryland and West Virginia, and along
the line Of the Baltimore, Wilmington
and Philadelphia and Camden and Am
boy railroads. BY this time the tele-
graph was put into excited operation, and
various messages were whisked over the
wires in various directions in regard TO the
missing corpse and scattered mourners, max
ing confusion doubly confounded fora while.
From Grafton an anxious mourner inquired
"where In the d. is the corpse p This
dispatch was crossed on the road BY loud
inquiry from Columbus as 10 the ownership
Of stray corpse arrived there unconsigned.
A Raltimore-scattered mourner telegraphed
10 posipone that funeral until ] get there,
and the squad Of mourners by the New York
train were sending wildly confused messages
20 Psrkersburg, Grafton, Relay ihouse and
Washinhton, all helping TO identify the pre-
vRiling muddle. The corpse meantime had
resumed It's travels, and like poor Joe, not
being wanted in any locality, hsd been kept |
moving until il arrived at the Little Miami |
depot where il created no little excitement,
being without any mark for identified |
ton, and foul play being at once suspected. |
A coroner . inquest was held without throw |
ing any light upon the mystery, which was,
however cleared up by a teleeraphic dis
patch fo- the missing corpse. The railway
officials then got the corpse in motion east
ward, and the mourners headed westward,
and finally, amer the most eventful history |
Of any corpse or set Of mourners on record, 1
Johnny sbody was finally committed by them
TO mother earth, there we trust il may rest in
peace