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closed. Tire revolt was that instead of fighting and shooting, nearly everybody in the town and surrounding country professed religion under the persuasive eloquence of the gifted man of (jod. Mr. Barnes. Judge Rundall adjourned his Court each day at 11 o’clock to peroiit the holding of divine worship in the Court-house (there being no church edifice in the place), and the prisoners, five or six in nutn her. charged with murder, manslaughter, c., were permitted, under proper guards, to attend the services day and night. A further result was that all the prisoners professed religion and seemed to have been thoroughly con verted. Judge Randall and his Sheriff went down to the water’s edge to receive the baptized prisoners as “they came up out of the water,” the Sheriff with pistols io hand for the law’s sake, and tears in their eyes for their own sake” (as quaintly expressed by the beloved evangelist himself presented an anomalous picture to the gazing and koppy multitude. In speaking of this wondrous change from war to peace, from outlawry to obedience to the commands of heaven, Judge Randall said recently to a friend that Rev. Mr. Barnes had been worth more to the peace and dignity of that part ot the Slate than all the Kentucky troops, and that the Governor ought to make him a present of $1,000.
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Little Falls Transcript
Little Falls, Minnesota, US
Fri, Jan 02, 1880
Page 4
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John B.
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