The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-12-20
THROUGH THE STATE.
The News of the Week Boiled
Down.

nawha are now said to contain a
greater number of logs, slaves and
ties than at any time before in
their history. II the owners
meet with no losses in getting
their timber out to market, it will
throw vast amount of money
into circulation throughout the
valley.
Sarah A. Plyman, of Braxton
county, one of the most remote
mountain counties in this State,
last Friday swore out a warrant
for the arrest Of her husband,
Jacob Plyman, who she said had
beaten and maltreated her shame
fully.
Henry Duffield and two assist
ants were sent to Brite's Mountain
to make the arrest. The most
ample preparations were made to
capture Plyman. who is nearly
seven feet high and Hercules in
strength. At a little shanty on
the side Of the mountain the off
GERS found their man and asked him
to surrender. He replied by firing
on them with a Winchester rife.
The constables returned the fire
and others in the shanty with Ply
man let loose a volley from shot
guns, deer guns and revolvers.
This firing was kept up for an hour,
when the officers, all Of them Sc
verely wounded, withdrew for rein
forcements and warrants for those
who had assisted Plyman. The
squad of deputy constables will
leave early this week to capture
the mountain fortress and bring
in its occupants to the Braxton
Court House.
A ROMANTIC STORY FROM Mon
ROE COUNTY. "A New York man,
Edward P. Whaites, is the hero Of
remarkable romance which has
just come to light through a news
note in New York paper. About
1925 Whaites, who was then a
young man, quarreled with his
sweetheart and found his way to
this country, then a wilderness.
He took up large tract of land.
Four or five years later he married
a girl of Monroe county, and short
ly afterward moved to Mississippi.
There his wife died. He left his
daughter in the family of friend
and returned to New York, where
he married a widow with several
children. Father and daughter
lost trace Of each other. The
daughter grew up, was married,
and finally with two boys came
back to this county, where she set
tied on the land abandoned by her
father. The boys grew up respect
ed men, and with their aged mother
still live here.
Whaites and his second wife lived
together 80 years, when the wife
died, and Whaites spent many
years travelling in the South and
then settled down in Galveston,
Texas, as wholesale grocer, where
he remained until 1870, when he
again went to New York, where
he met and married his first love,
Miss Ann Treadwell, who had
never married. Two years ago
she died and in January, 1884.
Whaites was married to a girl of
10. The New York newspapers
accounts of the marriage.
One of these accounts was rcpub-
lished in the Mowoe Comfy Watch
man and was read by ]. E. Keadle,
to his mother. She recognized in
the man her long lost father. Cor
respondence followed and Whaites
and his young wife are now here.
Father and daughter are united
after separation of 40 years. A
woman of 90 has for her mother
woman of 20, and men 40 years
old have daughters as old as their
great-grand-mother.
Burglars have been getting in
their work at Grafton. Arthur
Evans and George Hartman, aged
Io and II respectively, have been
arrested and held in bail to the
amount of $500 each.
A good deal Of diseased meat
was found in the Wheeling markets
last week and raised something of
a sensation. 1t was found that
sheep which had died of the foot
rot had been sold to the unsus-
pecting consumers. 1t was nipped
in the bud.
A glance at the map of West
Virginia will show that the several
proposed railroad connections with
the Ohio Central, when completed,
will make this road the most i'm
portant. railroad in the State.
Here they are:
1, Ohio River railroad, down the
Ohio river from Wheeling and Park
to Point Pleasant.
2, Elk River railroad down Elk
river to Charleston.
3, Gauley railroad down Gauley
river to the Falls of the Great Ka-
4, Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way at the Falls of the Great Ka-