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FOUND HIS SLAVE MOTHER.

John Jones's Search of Many Years Seems to Have Met With Success.

John Jones, the colored man whorecently sought the aid of the New York police in find- ing his mother, Parthenia Jones, from whom he was separated during the early days of the war, has been notified of the success of the search.The story he told was printed in the newspapers several days ago and was read by Mrs. Cecilla Jones, the wife of Parthenia's younger son, William Anderson Jones, of 345 West Forty-fifth street. William Jones is a porter on the New York Central Railroad. He returned home yesterday morning and his wife told him what she had read about his alleged brother's efforts to find his mother. The aged woman, who was formerly a slave, is now holding revival meetings at Riverhead Park, L. I., among the colored population there, and has not been informed of the existence of a man who claims to be her son. John lives in Washington. William Jones is skeptical about the story he tells, and intends to put him to a severe test. If he stands it satisfactorily a day will then be set for the family reunion here. Besides her two sons Mrs. Jones has two daughters, Martha Grey, who lives in Dan- ville, Va., and is the mother of ex-Mayor Wesley H. Jones of Danville, and Cornelia Jones of this city.