The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1869-06-11 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

AMERICAN ITEMS. REPORTS Ali the valley of Virginia state that the wheat crap will probibly be the largest and finest ever known. Tobacco is also promising. . BRIDGEPORT, Conn., has received an order from the Spanish Government for the manufacture of 10,000,000 metallic cartridges. THE number of German newspapers published in the United States is over 250, about 50 of them being dailies.  Tnz cells in the Hoboken (US) police-station are three feet by seven„and sometimes 20 prisoners are put in one of them. .  - A NEGRO police magistrate has been appointed in Washington, and several negro clerks have been appointed in the Post•ofiLa department. Tun Californian papers complain of the importation -from Hong Kong of Chinawomen for sale and pmetitution. OF a person who died lately at Bethany, Connecticut, the obituary says :—" He was as honest a man as ever lived, and had NOM no hat for 40 years." CIGAR smokers are in great apprehension over the prospect of the extension of the revolution in Cabe to the Vuelta Abajo region, where grows the tobacco from which are manufactured the Evanolas and Partagas. TUE former editor and proprietor of the Albany (Indiana) Leger takes leave of the patrons of that sheet in the following unique style :—"Valedictory. Farewell ! No tears, no sighs, no money, 'Let us have peace.'— U.S K."  THE receipts of the Atlantic Cable on the let and 2nd of June, at the reduced charge of .£2 per message, show an advance of more than 60 per cent. on the receipts of the corresponding days of last year, the incume of the two days being £1,534 this year, as compared with £929 on the let and 2nd of June 1868.  STATE PETS IN INDrewe.—Prison reform is said to be carried to great lengths in the Indiana State Penitentiary. Murderers are allowed to go fishing, convicts take tea with the wardens his house, and when a guard "speaks harshly 'to a criminal, the offending officer is discharged. .  WOMEN 8 WAGES I ItIEI:NITED STATES —ln Port. land women are making clothing for New York houses at the following rates :—Woollen sack coats, Is. Oid. each; pantaloons, 611 to 0/ ; ordinary evercoats, Is. 81; and for the heaviest and best made, 2s. 6d. to Is. Id.  THOMAS FIELD, a pit sawyer, has had his head nearly sawn through by a steam saw, in a sawmill at Lydney. The cut was nearly seven inches in length, yet Field walked a mile to his home, and has eince lingered in the Gloucester Infirmary, where he has just died. MS brain had not been touched. . _  YouNo LADIES AT A FIRE, —A large barn belonging to the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, at South Hadley, was destroyed by fire recently with its contents, consisting of horses, tobacco and farming utensils. The young ladies of the seminary turned out, and did good service in extinguishing the flames and saving the adjacent buildings. . . . . . .  A CONVICT in the Vermont Penitentiary, who has just been released after two years' service, took out with him a meat-box, of his own manufacture, six by nine inches, composed of over 7,000 different pieces, made by himself, and filled with many small articles nicely manufactured by other convicts from the bones of the beef which empplied their dinner.