The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-29 00:00:00

crop in Massachusetts and Connecticut is estimated.bl
,b
i e
3.5,000 cases against 20,000 last year, and the whole v
is s 1
123,000 cases against 72,000 last year. Dry goods 13.re'
sent very few changes, with a dull business. Frin!l°,,,g
cloths and choice prints still retain their activity. "
foreign goods business is dull and importations decreasing,
though still ahead of last year.

(Front the Wall-street Journal.)
FRIDAY EVENING, November 15.
ollet
Business remains dull throughout the country
tioas are difficult and the most exorbitant shaves DO Pa;
i
u°
in all the leading cities for accommodation. Failures
not diminish, and we regret since our last to notice tbe
sudden stop; age of the oldest firm in New York, A. 13iL'in'.
ger and Co wine and grocery merchants, who have IN-
v ranked 'lel
established since 1776, and who have alwayshigh as a reliable and conservative firm AliXen Witb'
git
man, and Co., starch manufacturers and oil dealers,
made a heavy failure; and we note that White, ilea. 4
and Co., and Randolph Brothers, both in the cloth ]o Geld
~,
G
business, have also succumbed. The New
93xehange Bank gave notice in another column, that t,3e
held
faunal meeting for the election of directors will be
at the Directors' Room of the Bank, 29, New-street, 'felt
York, on December 7th next, between the hours
a.m. and 1 p.m. Money on call, in lack of better e 01);;;
ment, is ( fferedat 6to 7 per cent. Discounts ee°ies,
difficult at 12 to 15 per cent. for first class double 33
°3' 6,
and at 15 to 24 per cent. for the very best single Trig
In the gold market transactions continue small autl
little vaiiation, the price having varied to-day fr°l'3
to 1262.

QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. 486
Amer. silver 97 to 98 I Eng. says ......486 t° 581
Mex. dollars 1031 „ 101 j 20 francs ........385 It VI
Eng. silver 470 , 480 I Thalers ......... 6.1
Five francs 96 97 I
Foreign Exchange„ is generally active, bui. shoWS liltla
change in prices.

956.
Sixty Days. 10 hlO3l
13091
London Bankers lOB4-103 1092
i
London Prime Commercial 108-1081 15,5'134
Paris, B 5
ankers
4 4
......
Bremen, Bankers
Hamburgb, Bankers 351-36 .....
.....
Frankfort, 0.M.404-404
.....
Berlin and Cologne
....•
Antwerp 5.214-5.171
......
Amsterdam, Bankers
Swiss 5.214-5.1'7k ....
Express Stocks are heavy
551 to 551
Adams
American Merchants' Union 35 to 10
Merchants' Union, old Stock 9i. to f,2
United States
Wells, Fargo, and Co 181 to 1"
Government Bonds are steady but inactive. iiii
Sixes, 1861, registered ll7l to 131
Sixes, 1881, coupon
Sixes, 1868, coupon
U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO7l tOll3
Five-twenties, 1862, registered ll2l to 1151
Five-twenties, 1862, coupon
joi
Five-twenties, 1864, coupon
Five-twenties, 1865, coupon
113 i of
Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new
Five-twenties, 1867, coupon
U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll5l to iloif
Ton-forties, coupon .. lO7l t° 1011
Ten-forties, registered
Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881
State Bonds are quiet, the transactions being.t°oll ate
nessees, North Carolinas, and Virginias, all of 01

lower.
h Priv
In Miscellaneous Stocks there is little doing, t ,e 010
&pal transactions being confined to Pacific Mail, 1711,`c•deria
declined to 57-1, on the report that the quarterly Vrigotil
is to be passed, but nothing will he known officially
the middle of next week. 861
Fort Wayne .......... • Ali
Pacific Mail ...............
Atlantic Mail ............ 0
............. 561
Quicksilver
W. U. Telegraph .... 6
. 11
CBC IMuohasmirtoi obpaneonrsWldaa jaPdt ser
s.f Pow6isr sr.
.eP. d.
.... 21
Bankers and Brokers•" 881
M & St. Paul ...........
M & St. Paul Preferre.airm
and the market is eal
little interest outside.
be readily absorbed 1.1

N. Y. Central xd 1801
Erie
Hudson .. l5B
Reading
Mich. Central l2Ol
Illinois Central
Cleveland & Pittsbrg B4
North-West
North-West Preferred 851
Canton.
Rock Island
Cleveland and Toledo

Railroad Stocks are dull,
brokers' market, there being
road Gold Bonds continue to

vestors.
N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 88
N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 89
N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 85
N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 85
N. Y. Central 7s, 1876
N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 9B
Erie Ist More, Ex 97
Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 —
Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B5
Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 —
Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 771
Long Dock Bonds
Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M, '77 B6
Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 100
Hud. R. 7s, 2d,,M, 'B5 102
Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 100
Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 —
Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 116
Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M.
N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B
Mich. S. &N.I.S.F'd 7p.c. 94
111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 115
Alton & T. 11. let 90
Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 79
Alton &T. H. 2d M. Inc. 70
Han .& St.J. Land Wrn tslo4
Han. & St. J. Con 105
Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 107
Chi. & N. West, S. 93
Chi. & N. W. Con Cony. 92
Chi. & N. W. Int B B4
Chi. & N. W. Ist M B7
Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75
111. & So. lowa Ist M —
Gt. West. Ist 31, 'BB B4
Gt. Western 2d M '93 7B
Tol. & Wab. 2d 31 Ex Bl J h 0"
The Erie Railway Company, on November 9t,lb' io 30
aotice to the New York Stock Exchange that 1,10-
days they will issue five million dollars Convertibje third o,
row Gauge Bonds, for the purpose of laying conl
rail between New York and Erie, and enabling tp $l3OO
pang to connect with the narrow gauge of the Lai
Company.

Tol. & Wab. EquiP• '''''' '" >
Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist -0. 91
Gal. & Chic. Ext .......... 94
Gal. & Chic. 2d N........ •
Chi. &R. I. Ist ........ • 92i
Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's,".
' 96
Cleve. & Tol. S. Fuou"96
N. J. Central Ist M..
N. J. Central 2d M. 100
Ppp ttt
Pitts.
sss FFF ttt Wl\
vv. ,&s 132s.cidt
c:• 7
X ~
0
Cleve. & Pitts., 4th "'.
Chic. & Alton, S. F: lAt
Chic. &Alton, S. V. Is'''. Sl'
Mil. & St. Paul Ist M.•• -
Mil. & St. Paul 2d .1..•.. 86
Marietta & Gin. Ist M•••
Morris & Essex Ist M.-91
Morris & Essex 2d 31 ',"
Joliet & Chic. 14• Chi. & Gt. East'n 94
N. Y. & N. H. Gs ..••• •" 921
Dubuque &S.City,lsol.
Peninsula Ist N:...... 91
Ohio & Miss. Ist
Ohio & Miss. Con ..... ..', s 2
Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. I),ri
Atlantic & G.
Iv 2d 2d 3,.• 93
Del., Lack., & .7 ds
-
Lake S bore Div. Boa
Cleve, P. & A sh.
Do. S4i
rfnion Pacific Gold P." 9
o'3
Central P.RR. Gold L3'" 9
Pacific RR. guar. bY.'"•°.

hanged
Josiah L. Pike, thirty years. of age, was ~ohtli.---
at Concord, New Hampshire, on the 9th Novera''f the
correspondent of the Tribune thus tells the go*" f for
crime, to which he confessed :—" It is just about "t;sed
since the pleasant village of Hampton Falls Was erfittoct
by the report that a horrible murder had been core' 00
within its limits. All New Englandparticipatearotife,
ys
ao theorf
m :a:::
murdera
fobioa
excitement. A Mr. and Mrs. Brown husbandan': 9:10
living at a distance from the settlement, were taiit'lj'p 4
their kitchen at dusk one evening,when a low Il: 3it 1
heard at the door. Mrs. Brown roceeded to toles/i,fi t)
and on opening to the caller was felled to the flec)r lol'
stroke from an axe, in the hands of a disguised fela to
whose identity the sequel proved. Mr. Brown Nell: leo
tafhhoneradr
ndr
teeshsaucedsunpbeiy,ceietsohnenelaypp eotd oi
n. meet the same - s 0 t
some ruffian,cluetetdNo
bad nature, and seen in thee
proceededwtoothhsooroinkffe:: . a
f toh searche
iv
les
dtohi
sf eckihoo;
`,Bred
e oj
avicaiinwralet
least give crime
03-boto
hours before its probable committal. He was Ifarrifo
but a short time before, and was boarding with filve :1
at the house of her mother in an adjacent town. "—cid
grocery bills, and minor expenses of housekeeping reolio,
in upon him; he had been often out of work, and 00 bre Do
pressed for money, on the very day of the nauttleitiro
started out, saying to his wife that he might not r,i- bad
until midnight. He returned towards morning, 11-f the
been at home buts few hours when arrested. Af°st °ti"
money stolen, with a pocket-book and a few ,Inaller
soto,
tr
cies, identified as the property of the murdered 13r° i 39
being found upon him, he was at once lodged in jail, ,sereo
and sentenced to death." He seems to have behaved ort,
in gaol, and to have become thoroughly penftelitlittLeeaf
buting the crime to drink. He shook hands with aistes;
him, and while the gym tette sang the hymn, "3" latest
sun is sinking fast"—they had sang hymns for 'too,
mornings previously—ho was prepared for Oectii..oeo
a spring was touched, and he fell six feet. The die": of
was miscalculated, and his feet touched the stone floret
which which he appeared conscious, making such efforts t° 'O.O
his feet on the ground that, to the cry of "Pull hirall'it
a deputy had to ascend and raise the writhing body at
the end of seven minutes from his fall the pulse stooaio
80, and lowered to 40 only at the end of 10 minutes, eii.t
at the end of 15 minutes there was no pulsation at the l'ie' ."
LADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment and ribeitot
Society's Safeguard.—Whatever the disease maY, Dr•
wherever it may discover itself, whether externally 19',.d0
tell:lain its victims may enter on Professor lielloLiig
treatment with hearts of hope that every daffy wilitivie-ellf4
some amelioration of
.the infirmity. For the cure 0' dolof
wounds, sores, abrasions, eruptions, abscesses, on .0-
swellings, and the generality ofb throat and
..n,h_e_ettoevEhl
ipnlastinrutsaitohnesetiontzseunrtenaeseudecoens
a desirable restoration of health and streng th.
Ili successful (3.1 sussueedtoac.ether accord
0,0;
orders which have been of long duration 1 tollolveliretila,
should be taken; they powerfully stimulate ta e repave
lion, raise the needful Il rvoua energy, and. indue
tive action.-----------/""
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BELL—On the 27th inst.BIRTIIS. ;of /01111
Herne-hill the o.l°
, at ,
of E.
T. Bell, Esq., of a daughter. wife _
STRAITH—On the 26th inst at Highgate, the
-
S. Straith, Esq., of a son. "
MARRIAGES.
stead, the
rfricsL°wE—PoPE—On the 24th inst., at ,odl'llatnaLE. t-of
P. Henslowe, Captain Bombay Army, to -r-' scli
Younger daughter of the late Samuel Pope,
Hayerstock-11111. rollltri
b
SMITH—IRONMONGER—On the 24th inst., at tNe'. 60 I
'
Chapel, London, Thomas, eldest son of Thorn° rof .b'
of 49, Easteheap, to Martha Eliza, fifth daugbtt
ironmonger, late of Lincoln's-inn-fields.

DEATB S. 94'1
Annix—On the 25th inst., at 10 p ,B • m ton J. Ardiro
aged 78. COP°'
COPE—On the 26th inst'1 at Epsom, Jacob Gear
Esq., aged 81.

vire,
London : Printed said Published by WILLIAJA All.„Psttronj'
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No.11`,,00,"""
in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of giciw-
31QuclaY, Drcovomber 29, 1869.