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Gbufjl*, December J.5.-~Th«r© never more beautifuL balloon ascension made anywhere than the one our people beheld yesterday. Prof. Oscar Hunt, the daring aeronaut, had advertised a free ascension for the 12th, and true to hie promise, the 4‘City pf Griffin” bounded away from earth exactly at 4 o’clock io the afternoon. There must have been fully 4,000 people to witness the novel affair. Tfie balloon r was made in St. Louis, and named in honor of thie city, it is one of the iarieett Used, having a capacity of thirty tbousapd Cubic feet, und is, withal, a real beauty. It U about ninety feet high, add thfrty-flte feet across oocung about *000. Arauftd the body of the balloon, In huge green .letters, the words, “City of QntHnM are painted. They were very bright in the nolfght, and Griffin was “above herself/’ The oecenaion was one of the prettiest and most successfulthe professor lias ever made. 'When the words «jct go” were said, the ropes were loosed, and up the great. graceful thing shot like a rocket. As he ros£, Prftfwwr Hunt suspended him* self by his lege with head downward, and then hung by the tips of hie toei. Many other evolutions were performed. The balloon went dp almost perpendicularly for about g mile, poised a moment in mid air end then drifted slowly towards the smith, commencing at once to fail. It was not more than half a mile away where the descent was made. As it commenced to descend, the immense throng ran In a don-fused masf to see if the professor was iiH jored. Me was not even scratched.A TBfcBIBLJC MU BOSH 1M PAOLDIJCO COUJfTY. lt;i Dallas, December II;—A boro*ble murder wae committed about three* fciutes south of thU place on last Bun-
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Atlanta Daily Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sun, Dec 14, 1879
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