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Show R. M. Bereton proposes to construct con-struct a canal from Tulare lake to tide-water.. The length of this canal would be 200 miles and the estimated cost is $3,000,000, or $15,000 a mile. The California republican editors are talking of a prtss convention to agree upon a course of political action ac-tion for the ensuing canvass. The internal revenue collections in the first district of California lor the three months ending December 3Iat was $(i0S,ol9 28. Two ot San Franci-co's most distinguished dis-tinguished physicians wero buried on Monday, Drs.JPourgeaud and More who were among the earlv California piuneer,-. One thousand and sixty-three houses hous-es were constructed io Oakland last vear, at an aggregate cost of $2,422,- The receipts, for the pastwppkattho California theatre, with Suakespeare's tragedy of "Hamlet" as the p' ay reached $11, 173 50. Mr. McCul-lougu McCul-lougu has good reason to feel proud of his succciS. NIVADA. The consolidated Virginia mining company has completed its new works aiid work will ue commenced in a tew davs. There are twelve batteries, bat-teries, of "fiv s turn is each, and a compound condensing engine ot 600 horse-power is required to drive the wuole machinery. The main shaft ot the engine we gus Beven and a half tons, and is fourteen inches in dia-meti dia-meti r. The fly wheel U eighteen feet in diameter, and weighs 33,000 pounds. Two boxes of giant powder exploded ex-ploded in the Sutro tunnel on Tues-dav, Tues-dav, aud John Delaney and Samuel Richards were killed instantly. W. Pellow was seriously hurt, and will probably die. Others escaped witk slight injuries. A public meeting in Austin has adopted a bill to be presented to the next legislature authorizing Lander county, with the consent of three-fifths three-fifths of the voters, to grant a subsidy 'ol $200,000 to aid in the contraction I of a line of railroad from some point on the line of the Central Pacifio railroad. |