The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1868-11-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE GERMAN FORGERS.—The three Germans, Streimer, Stovin, and Kunaker, have been again remanded on the charge of having conspired to defraud various London bankers by means of forged foreign bills of exchange. It was elicited that the prisoners had made arrangements for circulating fraudulent bills bearing the forged acceptances of firms in the principal cities at Europe, Australia, and Canada. One engraver proved that he had lithographed 300 forms of foreign bills of exchange for the prisoner Streimer.  SHAMPOOrNG SnE;!.—The ‘sheep-farmers in  Australia have a shrewd eye for business. Some of the leading men among them have recently spent considerable sums of money in the construction of apparatus for sheep.washing with hot water. From water at a temperature of 110°, into which they are first plunged, the sheep are floated to a tank of cold water, where the cleansing is completed with a kind of douche. So much grease is taken out of the fleeces by this process, that henceforth Yorkshire will be willing to give a better price for the woel. LATE THE OTHER NJGHT a woman dressed in black passed through the toll on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, and at once proceeded to the second recess on the east side of the footway, where she seated herself, and remained sobbing and crying. At length she got up on the seat, and threw herself into the river. As the tide was running rapidly up, she most have been carried under the arch. She at once disappeared, for no signs of her could be seen by those who were almost instantly on the spot. A tollman knew her as being a woman 30 years of age, called Nelly Nash. M. PAULIN, the eon of a man who made a fortune by the Illustration (the French Illustrated News, of which he was the founder), committed suicide on Thursday, at his residence, No. 3, ltue Grange Bateliere. After starting in life with an income of upwards ef £3,000 a year, he ruined himself by gambling at the Bourse and the German gaming-tables. At Homburg and Baden-Baden he frequently played the maximum and broke the bank. He was often heard to say that when he was thoroughly "cleaned out" he would kill himself. He fulfilled the threat by enveloping his head In linen soaked in enormous quantities of chloroform. Two DESTRUCTIVE FIRES occurred on Thursday, one at Skipton and the other at Brighouse. At the place first named the fire was discovered in the top room of the corn mill belonging to Messrs. Wilkinson, aud damage to the amount of £2,000 was done. The other fire was still more disastrous. It took place in a seven-story mill at Brighouse, in the occupation of Mr. Jonathan Stott, cotton spinner. The engines available were not of sufficient power effectually to cheek the progress of the flames, which rapidly consumed a great portion of the promisee, and did damage roughly stated at £20,000. Between 500 and 600 persons will be thrown out of employment by the accident.  Tin FIELD ARTILLERY in India are about to be armed with bronze muzzle•loading riid guns. They are to be cast in India.  IT IS ANNOUNCED that the Marquis of Hastings wired at 12.45 on Tuesday, at his town residence, Grosvenor-square. LORD NAPIER OF MARDALA arrived on Sunday at the Hotel Mirabeau, and was to leave next day by the Lyons Railway for Marseilles. THE LAST NUMBER of the Berlin Kladderadalsch, or Punch, has been seized for the publication of a caricature against the deficit in the Prussian budget. MERE IS A TALK of erecting a grand monument in Washington, commemorative of the chief actors in the late war.  THE ELECTRIC LIGHT is to" be. used for a new lighthome at Brindisi in the Adriatic. Thin ha the fled experiment of the kind made in Italy.  ON SAi maul' night a fire took place at the Old Hop Pole Brewery, Penge. The premises were completely burnt down, and nearly se,en tons of hops destroyed.