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The city election this spring was not much contested. following officers were elected: Mayor.-JOHN S. PRINCE. Treasurer. NICHOLAS GROSS. Justice.-E. C. LAMBERT. Surveyor.-C. M. BOYLE. K. T. FRIEND was elected by the Council, City Clerk. Comptroller.-JOHN W. ROCHE. City Physician.-Dr. A. G. BRISbine.

The cholera having threatened to pay the city a visit, a quarantine was established at Pig's Eye.

June 20, Rev. J. D. POPE, for ten years pastor of the First Baptist church, resigns.

June 30, Jefferson school house burned.

July 1, Capt. JOHN JONES appointed Chief of Police, vice TURNBULL, resigned.

July 29, Capt. H. L. CARVER, C. W. NASH and others. purchase the Pioneer.

August 11, the first steam fire engine, "City of Saint Paul,” received by our firemen, and assigned to Hope Engine Company, No. 1.

August 21, a curious "accident" occurred at the Mansion House, a hotel which stood where the Custom House now is. A man, named HAWKES, from Chicago, who was boarding there, while cleaning a revolver, shot his wife, killing her instantly. As it afterwards transpired that he had taken a policy of insurance on her life for $10,000, not long before, the facts seemed to warrant his prosecution for murder. He was consequently tried on that charge, but acquitted. The county was the only sufferer, the trial costing $4,000.

INSTITUTION OF A STATE REFORM SCHOOL.

During the year 1866, one of the most useful of our State institutions, a Reform School for juvenile culprits, was instituted, and soon after got into operation, adjoining what is now the corporate limits of our city, on the road to Minneapolis. This institution had its origin in the following circumstances: During 1865, Hon. I. V. D. HEARD, City Attorney, was frequently called on to prosecute young boys, some of them mere children, for larceny and other petty crimes. Their confessions as to their own acts, and those of their compan

ions, were deplorable, and exhibited an amount of depravity among the boys of the city, that alarmed Mr. HEARD and excited his sympathies. There seemed but one way to check and cure the evil-a juvenile reformatory.

After several communications to the daily papers on the necessity of such an institution in or near our city, Mr. HEARD

on November 9, 1865, addressed an official communication to the City Council, urging that body to take steps to secure a juvenile reformatory.

* EDWARD ZIMMERMAN was born in Strasbourg, (then in France,) April 26, 1821, and resided in the Department of Alsace until 1848, when the revolutionary troubles induced him to seek a home in the new world. He came to New York that year, and to Saint Paul in 1855, and entered mercantile business here, in which he was widely known, and highly respected. He was, also, an active and useful member of the Board of Education for several years. He died on July 27, 1866.

The communication was referred to a special committee, who reported, on January 2, strongly urging that Mr. HEARD'S proposal be concurred in, and means taken to secure such an institution as was proposed. A committee was appointed to secure the proper legislation, and an appropriation from the State for the purpose, and sufficient aid pledged by the city to ensure its organization, conditioned that the institution was located in or near the latter.

The Legislature of 1866, on a proper representation of the facts, established by enactmenť, a "House of Refuge," and appropriated for the purchase of grounds, &c., in Ramsey county, $5,000, on condition that the city of Saint Paul would contribute a similar sum, which was done. Messrs. D. W. INGERSOLL, S. J. R. MCMILLAN, A. T. HALE and Rev. J. G. RIHELDAFFER, were appointed managers. A very suitable location, near the city, called the Burt Farm, was purchased for $10,000, and, in a few months, the institution was in successful operation, Mr. RIHELDAFFER having been appointed as Superintendent. Its name was subsequently changed to the State Reform School."

On January 1, 1875, the Superintendent reported that since the opening, 253 inmates had been received, and 145 of these had been discharged, all of whom were, (so far as known,) doing well, and many holding positions of trust and responsibility, and leading moral lives. The amount of good such an institution does, no one can tell, for its main power is in preventing rather than remedying.

October 18, two servant girls, named LENA BODEN and SOPHIA MARTIN, at Mrs. STOKES' boarding house, on the site of the present Metropolitan Hotel, were burned so badly by the explosion of kerosene, with which they were lighting a fire, that they died within a few days.

November 3, J. D. WILLIAMS, who, for a number of years, had kept "Williams' Ferry," above the city, was murdered near Fort Snelling.

December 19, the Chamber of Commerce, which, for almost 10 years, had been dormant, was reorganized, and became one of our most important institutions.

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The election, this fall, resulted in the choice of the following officers Senator.-Wм. P. MURRAY. Representatives.C. H. LIENAU, EDMUND RICE, and C. K. DAVIS. Judge of Probate.-R. F. CROWELL. Auditor.-S. LEE DAVIS.

NECROLOGY OF 1866.

Died, February 5, BERT MULLER, a pioneer hotel keeper, policeman, &c. February 20, at Burlington, Iowa, R. FRANK HOUSEWORTH, an old resident, Clerk of the Ramsey county Court, member of School Board, &c. March 2, at Prairie du Chien, Rev. LUCIEN GALTIER, first priest of Saint Paul. March 21, Dr. WM. H. MORTON, a well-known physician. April 7, J. WATSON WEBB, a merchant. May 4, AMABLE TURPIN, father of Mrs. LOUIS ROBERT, aged 100 years. June 3, PERRY SLOAN, by accidentally falling from the third story of Merchants' Hotel. August 13, at the Iowa Insane Hospital, DEWITT C. MARVIN, a well-known auctioneer of Saint Paul. August 23, at Philadelphia, Wм. H. WOLFF, for many years a druggist in Saint Paul, Alderman, &c. October, 15, KENNEDY T. FRIEND, City Clerk. December 14, GEORGE G. STRONG, formerly of Second Regiment.

PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1867.

The congregation of Christ church, Protestant Episcopal, (Rev. S. Y. MCMASTERS,* rector,) which had for about 16 years worshipped in the old chapel on Cedar street, completed their new and fine edifice, corner of Fourth and Franklin streets, early in January. On the 13th, it was used for service,

* Dr. STERLING Y. MCMASTERS was born at Guilford Court House, North Carolina, December 9, 1813, and graduated at the University of that State. He studied medicine in early life, but subsequently studied theology, and was ordained a clergyman in the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1846, he became rector of Christ church, at Alton, Illinois. In 1858, he became President of Saint Paul's College, Palmyra, Missouri. Three years later, this was broken up by the war, and he became Chaplain of the Twenty-seventh Illinois Regiment. In 1863, he came to Saint Paul for his health, and became rector of Christ church, ministering to that society for 12 years. He soon attained a high reputation in our State as a fine scholar, a skilled theologian, an earnest, active, faithful clergyman, and a Christian gentleman of the finest culture. He was a member of the State Normal Board, of the Minnesota Historical Society, and was Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition in 1873. He was a Free Mason of the 33d degree. He died November 5, 1875, sincerely lamented.

and, two Sabbaths later, caught fire from the furnace, and was destroyed, all except the bare walls. It was soon rebuilt.

January 25, the "Mansion House," corner of Wabasha and Fifth streets, was destroyed by fire, the fifteenth hotel, the papers remarked, that had been burned in our city. In this case, it was ultimately of some benefit to the public. It led the way to the purchase, a few days subsequently, of the ground for the site of the Custom House and Post-office.

The great increase of business in the District Court of Ramsey county, for some months prior to this date, clearly rendered an additional court necessary. The bar, at meetings held in 1866, decided to secure the same, and the Legislature of 1867, established the " Court of Common Pleas" for Ramsey county. At a city election held April 2, Hon. WILLIAM SPRIGG HALL* was elected as Judge.

Several very destructive fires [besides those noticed] occurred this season. On February 22, WEIDE & BRO.'s wholesale grocery store, on Third street, burned down. June 22, the machine and car shops of the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad were destroyed-loss $150,000. May 23, several buildings on the south side of Third street, above Cedar, were destroyed, including an old landmark, the "Saint Paul House," on

Bench street.

The municipal election, this spring, resulted in the choice of the following officers: Mayor.-Hon. GEO. L. OTIS.†t

* WILLIAM SPRIGG HALL, one of the most respected jurists that Ramsey county ever had, was born July 9, 1832, in Anne Arundel county, Maryland. He was educated at Saint John's College, in that State, and studied law, being admitted to practice in 1854. He came to Saint Paul in October of that year, and formed a law partnership with HARWOOD IGLEHART, formerly of Annapolis, Maryland. In 1856, he was appointed Superintendent of the Common Schools of Minnesota, which office he filled two years. In 1857, he was elected to the State Senate, in which he showed high ability. In 1867, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and re-elected in 1874, for seven years more. His health failed rapidly about that period, and he took an European tour without much benefit. On February 25, 1875, he died on a railroad car, while on his way home from the east.

† GEO. L. OTIS was born in New York, October 7, 1829. He removed to Michigan: in 1837, and lived there until 1855, in the meantime studying law and was admitted to prac. tice. In October, 1855, he came to Saint Paul, and has practiced his profession here since that date, with eminent success. He was elected a member of the Legislature (House) of 1857-S, and of the Senate in 1866, performing valuable services on the Judiciary Committee during the first named session. Mr. OTIS was elected Mayor of Saint Paul in