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A Mother's Search.

An interesting incident has just been brought to light in Ownesboro, Ky., in which Martha Cobble, who served a great portion of her life in slavery in Virginia, and who forty years ago was separated from her children, is the he-roine. The mother and her offspring were owned by a planter in Richmond, Va., and at the breaking out of the gold excitement in California in 1849 her master sold her two sons, aged 8 and 10 years, to a slave-trader from New Orleans, where they were again sold, the oldest, Thurston Cobble, to parties in Henderson, Ky., and his broth-er Ned to a party living in Texas. As soon as her boys were taken from her the mother, who was held by the chains of slavery, set about to learn where her children were taken and to keep trace of them, hoped that some day they would be reunited. She succeeded in knowing that they had been taken to New Orleans, but here she lost all trace of them, but did not despair, and con-tinued her search by means of letters written for her by friends to various parts of the country, all of which were fruitless. Soon as she was given freedom she worked hard and saved her earn-ings in order to pursue her search. She managed by stinting herself to visit New Orleans, thence to Memphis, Nash-ville, Tenn., and many other places, at least returning to Richmond, Va. During all her travels she would get friends to write for her to points where she would occasionally receive information which might possibly bring her some news of her boys. Finally she, by some accident, learned that Thurston had been sold and taken to Henderson, Ky. She got some of her friends to write to some of the members of the Baptist church at Henderson. A reply was re-turned that he had gone to Daviess county, Ky. A letter was addressed to the Baptist church in Owensboro, which was handed to Thurston Cobble, who has been employed for some time as a porter in the Deposit Bank. Thurston at once secured money and forwarded it to his aged mother, who is now 85 years old and nearly blind. The money brought the mother to Owensboro Sun-day, and the meeting of the faithful parent and her son was a joyous scene. She was also rewarded by learning that her other son is doing well near Dallas, Tex.