Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-02-28
ARBLEADVENTURE OF A CORPSE.

aid Isle, one of the victims of the late
arsenal explosion, died in this city, and
Immediately preparations were made to
give him nice, genteel funeral It
was at first arranged that be should be
buried here, but some of his kindred be-
ing buried at Parkersburg, West Vir-
ginia, it was finally determined that what
remained Of poor johnny M-should
be sent to that place. Accordingly, af-
ter wake" Zone of the good old sort)
the remains were accompanied Ly his
sorrowipg friends and relatives to the de.
pot, to take the cars for the place of bur-
ial The funeral procession arrived at
the depot some time before the depart
ure of the train in which the remains
were to 60, and the mourners spent the
intervening time in assuaging their sor-
rows at the neighboring bars, so abuu-
dant in that vicinity, the corpse mean
while remaining or the platform ready
70 be placed on the 9 P. NJ. train which
would connect al the Relay House with
the western train.
The lrty meanwhile drank so many
libations to the memory of the departed
that they returned to the station in
very mellow condition, and the railroad
officers being apprehensive that they
would be incapable of taking care of the
corpse, telegraphed to the agent a. 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 to
muster the mourners VIXEN it was ascer-
tained that one or two of them had got
so obfusticated as to have taken the New
York train. The rest of the party, how
ever, managed to get aboard, and ere
long Johuny Ms body was again
marching on" At the Relay the corpse
was transferred to the western train, but
two or three Of the mourners were too
far gone to get on in time, and SO pro-
ceeded to Baltimore, while the balance
of the party with the corpse wac hurried
on with extra speed westward.
AT the points along the road where
the engine stopped "to water,' the
mourners as invariably stopped 'to wet"
and not being up to time, quite as irva-
riably brace or more we're left behind
at each watering and wettins place, and
by the time Grafton was reached where
the corpse was to change cars for Park
crsburg, but few Of the mouruers re-
manned with it, and these were so bewil-
dered that they failed to get in the prop
er train, and Johnny's corpse went on to
Wheeling without them From thence
by some means, it was sent to 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 Bal
timore, Wilmington and Philadelphia
and Camden and Amboy Railroads. BY
this time the telegraph was put into e1-
cited operation and various messages were
whisked over the wires in various direc-
tions in regard to the missing corpse and
scattered mourners, making confusion
doubly confounded for awhile.
| From Grafton an anxious mourner in
quired "Where in the ID is the corpse?"
This despatch was crossed on the road
by loud inquiry from Columbus as to
the ownership of stray corpse arrived
there unconsigned. A Baltimore scat
tered mourner telegraphed to postpone
the funeral till l get there )" and the
squad Of mourners by the New York
train were sending wildly confused mas
sases to Parkersburg, Relay House,
Grafton and Washington, all helping to
intensity the prevailing muddle. The
corpse, meantime, mad resumed Its travels
and, like poor Joe, not being wanted in
any locality, had been kept moving on,
until it arrived at Little Miami depot,
where it created no little excitement
being without any mark for Identification
and foul play beingrat once Suspected
! coroners inquest was held without
throwing any light upon the mystery,
which was however, cleared up by tel
egrapic despatch for the missing corpse.
The railway officials then got the corpse
in motion eastward, and the mourners
headed westward, and finally, after the
most eventful history of any corpse or
set Of mourne,s on record, Johuny's
body was duly committed by them to
mother earth, where We trust it may rest