Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-14

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WALL STREET TO-DAY.
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t. u suc has since rui II M aNAF On eo.a
ENchsnge i. frmor ana bigger thaS y@s.er,,sT.
business haS ing advanced 20 Is ~ and f-si. a.,
msrset is quoted At ss6 per cent Tor eSI iiS sRs
shd o2ss> Per cent for IT oisss mercaute pspsr
TIE stock market opened =. above yesfsrssv,.
elosing, declined 20 DE nr.i haif hour a.. iser
1.-The latter Mehiss9 Tent central s and EaE S ssors
latter Lake ehore and Union Pacific fell Z.
"A MAN PoIsoNs HIMSELF FOR LACK OF
LohMENT.-A young man named John
Brainmeller, about 80 years OF age mas been
living with his wife az No. l2l Pleasant
street. Tney have been married not quite a
year and seemed 10 have lived in tolerable
comfort. and without trouble between them
me husband was, during the war, a soldier
IN The 18th Ohio volunteers. Lately he had
been employed as a labOrer on the sth street
railroad, tut was thrown out OF employ
ment a Few weeks since. He was In the
habit OF drinking, and during this interval
OF enforced likeness had turned 20 his ems
more frequently than ever. Yesterday AZ
ternoon about O'Clock ne asked his wife for
some money. She gave him about IS cents
he also asked for vial. His wife desired
to know what he wanted with a little battle
but he persisted I'm his request without ex-
planning his design. She procured the vial,
and be went TO Meyers drug store. ON fhe
corner OF Vine and lith streets. where ne
purchased some laudanum. Tpon his re
turn his wife asked him what he had bought
out he made no definite answer. lie went
INTO the bedroom, closed the door and swal-
lowed the contents of the bottle. About 3
O'Clock his wife became alarmed at hearing
nothing from him. and. on opening the door
touhd nim lying dead.-CJEciaHq'i tsdzc.te, 10,
TIE CENSUS OF IRELAND.-Tne conpila.
ZION OF the census OF Ireland, which has lust
oeen made public. contains many Interest,"
ing statistics. The population OF the island
Is set down at 5.il2.394. IL lS6l Il was $685.
y6' IN 1851. ,553, lc3, and in 1871, s,I16I2L IL
has thus fallen of nearly three millions in
less than twenty-five years. This falling of
Is somewhat accounted for when we turn 10
our own census returns and discover that In
ISL there were SIS 81 persons sim living i'm
the United States VINO were born in Ireland.
There has also been very large emigration
nom Ireland 10 England, Scotland and Can
ada, During the last ten years. according 10
the Irish census. the total emigration from
lhe island was 81. $50, and 10 was not as large
curing TINS decade as during the two pre-
Elous. The returns as to religious denomi-
nations show very little change from former
years. The Catholics. however nave slfghflv
decreased IN numbers, and the EpjscOpalians
ard Presbyterian slightly increased since
9eGl. The former number q 80 So, the Fpis-
cOpallans 6ts ,995, the PreSbyterianS 4g7 cas-
and all other denominations together %, s5I:
THE CATHOLICS AND THE BIBIE-6sf,.ss
% t'Tdlad MctIoSLey.-In New York al a
meeting OF the council and parOchial COM
mittees OF the Catholic union last night
cardinal McClOSkey delivered an address,
congTatuiating the union on the work accOu-
plished by IL. and encouraging N 10 still
further exertions. In referring 10 the discus
sion al present raging in relation TO the Bible
In the public schools. lie said that ~ this
persecution, which appears 70 be threatened,
IS 10 come, let u come. aud they would
emerge from IL better Catholics than ever
This trouble, he thought, was not going 10 be
religious bat political trouble. Pno:est-
ants had lighted the fire aud expected tue
Catholics would supply fuel to keep IL alive
lie urged them not 10 throw faggOts on the
IRE; but, rs caution and advice, entreatei
them. in case The struggle did cone, they
should be true TO each other, 70 their church.
and above all 10 those who were the innosent
cause OF lt-iheir children. John McKeon
refuted the charges made against Cath0licity
by its enemies as being inimical and opposed
10 civil and religious liberty.
A BRooKLYS BOYS TERRIBLE DEATH
Frederick, the nye-year old son OF ex Sen
aior A. j. Upham, custom house official,
who has been living in the Mansion House,
brooklyn. asked the superintendent OF the
hotel yesterday for the Key TO the elevator,
saying that he wished 10 90 u the fourth
hOOT. He said that he knew how 90 run The
elevator. The superintendent directed one
OF The bell bows. James Leonard. 10 faka Tie