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A NOTABLE GATHERING. Five Generations Meet in This City--A Family's Strange History.

Yesterday morning a reporter was directed to visit No.246 Linden square, where a colored family by the name of Johnson resided, and assured that he would there find an interesting item. Ellen Johnson, the mistress of the house, told a very peculiar story. She said that fifty years ago she and her mother were slaves, owned by Mr. Ben Johnson, of Frankfort, Ky. She was about ten years old when her mother was sold and taken away from her. When she was twenty-five years of age she came to Louisville, and has since lived here, having married in the meantime.

She had not seen or heard of her mother since they parted, fifty years ago, until last February, when she received a letter from her parent, dated New Orleans. The old woman heard in some way that her daughter was living in Louisville and at once made up her mind to come and live with her. Shortly after this she was taken sick and was not able to travel.

Thursday night about 8 o'clock neighbors were surprised to hear a joyous uproar coming from No. 246. Everybody in the house seemed to be shouting and yelling at the top of their voices. The din sounded like a regular camp-meeting jubilee, and was prolonged until about 11 o'clock.

Yesterday inquiries were made, and it was learned that the old woman, the mother of Ellen Johnson, who had been parted from her daughter for fifty years, had arrived. Mother and daughter of course did not recognize each other, but were overjoyed, nevertheless. The mother is 112 years old and her daughter 60. Living in the house with Mrs. Ellen are her great grand-children. This makes them the great great grandchildren of Mrs. Johnson's mother. Strange as it may seem, the reporter saw the great great grandmother, the great grand-mother, the grandmother, mother and children all assembled in the same room.