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Show LINCOLN'S PRECOCITY. (Philadelphia Ledger.) When the log "cabin was' taken from New York to its final resting place in Kentucky, it aroused a groat deal of comment com-ment and curiosity as it passed through the different cities. Majiy curiqus anecdotes anec-dotes were told of the trip, but probably the best one Is this one. which Is told with j keen relish by Captain N. C. Hullitt of1 company A, First Kentucky infantry, who was in charge of the detail of five pri- j vates that guarded the famous relic on ii- ; way south. i "The car on which the cabin rested whs ! standing on a railroad siding in Baltimore. when a Marylander, who had exhibited ; great apparent interest in the cabin, ap- ' proached me in a very timid manner and : asked: "'Is that renlly the Lincoln cabin?" " 'Yes. it's the real thing.' I responUe.l. ' " 'And . Abo Lincoln was born in there?" , " 'Yes. right within those very walls.' 1 " 'Well, well,' said the questioner, asj he rutninatively stroked a meagre tuft of j reddish beard, 'and I suppose he cut tlios- very logs with his own hands.' " |