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Show A DISPATCH states that at the recent convention in Chicago, a communication was read from Mr. James A. Root, calling attention to the historical association connected with the gavel used by the presiding officer of the convention. Its head is made from a piece of wood taken from the home of Abraham Lincoln, and the handle from a cane grown on the Mt. Vernon estate, at the home of Washington. The presiding officer was asked to accept it as a memento of one of the most interesting conventions in the history of the Republican party. |