Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Sad Scene. With a Lively Corpse. [ARTICLE]

Sad Scene. With a Lively Corpse.

St. Louis Globe Democrat.. * Mr. C’heney. a farmter of Indiana, having a Married daughter] living in Nebraska, was shocked by a telegram from her.huaband saying that her body , would arrive the next -evening. The ’family was overcome with, the sudden blow. Hurried preparations for mourn*, ing gaj-u;et.'.s aim {he preliminaries to the fuiural were made, and on the dismal evening, dressed all in black, they wept to the station to meet the corpse. The hearse and two or three carriages were drawn lip in line,and a numerous prowd, attracted partly by partly by sympathy, accompanied tne bereaved household, As the • train approached a solemn silence settled upon the assembly, apdas it stopped there was a respectful* bush until tne cere mo-, ny of.receiving the corpse -was. concluded. But the train hands did ndt' share this feeling.'' The baggage master pitched his trunks about aud swore just as briskly as ever, and just as if a part of the load was not of a character to call for decorous behavior.

The conductor came upon the platform laugliing and trying to joke with the station agent’s, daughter, who told him he ought to be-ashamed ’.to carry on meantime the long, narrow box which »b quick ly tells its story-hiyl not made its appear;.ace, and after a painful delay, Mr--Mr. Cheney stepped forward afih asked for the corpse. The baggage map stared at him as if he were crazyy and making no reply went on overhauling the trunks as if it .might be under them somewhere. Suddenly Mr. Cheney ■ felt an’ arm ground his neck a kisa-imprinted upon his He. looked. It was his daughter. The female members of family ventiinfo hysterics. Thep were shouts and ‘tears and laughter. Thatdaughter; : appall©! at - the somber dresses, ithe hearse and portege was "frightened almost into a fainting fit. She-tiould offer no explanation of the Ualsgracp- Bhg could not say whether in a state of absent mindedness ber husband Bad actually sent the dispatch Es received, or whether he-wrote it so lindly that the operator misread it. At my riite she refused to ride home in the-bearse and took her. place in the carriage with, the chief mourners.'