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JJ.lIylAKJJJXXIO URimS,Gbu'fjlx, December U.-—There was never a more beautiful balloon ascension made anywhere than the one our people beheld yesterdays Prof. Oscar Hunt, the daring teronant, had advertised a free useenaion for the 12th, and true to his 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 wltoeas the novel affair. 'Wie balloon was made in St. Louis, end named in honor of this city. Jt is one of the largest Used, having a capacity of thirty tbousapd Cubic feet, und is, withal, a real beauty. It is about ninety feet high, and thfrty-ftre feet across, pasting about *000. Arnd thebody of the balloon, in huge green lt;letters, the word*. “City of Qrlftfn,# are painted.They were very bright in the anolight, and Griffin was “above herself.” The aaceneion was one of the prettiest and moat successful the professor Iras ever made. When the words “let fo” Were said, the ropes were loosed, and up the great, graceful thing shot like a rocket. As he ros*. Profesaor Hnnt suspended Mm* self by hit lege with head downward, and then lrnoE by the tips of his toes. Many other evolutions were performed. The balloon went op aim oat perpendicularly for about a mile, poised a moment in mid-air pnd then drifted slowly towards the south, commencing at once to fall. It wWe not more than half a mile away where the descent was made. As it commenced to descend, the Immense throng ran In a confused masf to see if the professor was injured. Me was not even scratched.A TKfcBIBL* MCB08R 1U PAULPIJIO COUKTT.Dallas, December 11.—A bori*bl«
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Atlanta Daily Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sun, Dec 14, 1879
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