Word: southern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...southern California and along the Rio Grande irrigation is carried on very scientifically and advantageously. The method used at present is to tap a stream up in the mountains; water is led off by long canals down into the valleys, and each farmer in turn taps the canal to irrigate his land. The laterals are at times but 100 feet apart, and the water flowing through them moistens all the intervening ground...
...after Christmas the Princeton Glee and Banjo clubs will leave Philadelphia on their southern trip. They will give their first concer at Baltimore the same evening. They will give a concert at Washington Friday evening, after spending the day in the city. On Saturday evening their entertainment will be at Richmond, where they will remain over Sunday. On Monday night they will give a concert at Wilmington, N. C., and on Tuesday at Charleston. Still traveling southward, they will reach Augustain time for a concert on Wednesday, and Savannah, Thursday. On Friday, January 3, they will sail from Savannah...
...SOUTHERN CLUB.- There will be a Jefferson Davis memorial meeting of the Southern club tonight at 8 o'clock...
...work at the Harvard Observatory is, at present principally devoted to stellar photography. Observations are made as far south as 25 degrees beyond the equator, while the expedition sent to South America is completing the observations in the southern hemisphere. A new photographic telescope has been added to the apparatus of the Observatory similar to the 7 inch Bates telescope in Peru. The instrument consists of a telescope with an adjustment for a photographic plate holder...
...WOOD, JR, Secretary.SOUTHERN CLUB.- There will be a special meeting of the Southern club this afternoon at 2 o'clock to take action with regard to the death of the Hon. Jefferson Davis. All members are urged to be present...