The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1880-09-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CHARGE FOR CRUSHING OIL CAKE MARK THE ADDRESSW. H. NIGHTINGALE, 24 & 25, WEST ORCHARD, COVENTRY.  Threi  THE month of September has so far been remarkable for as great changes of temperature as have ever been recorded in one month in this country, and when we consider that these abrupt alternations of heat and cold have taken place within fourteen days, the peculiarity is still more extraordinary. We believe we are considerably within the mark when we say that the temperature has risen from 40 degrees to 100, Fahrenheit. In other words we have had summer and winter almost in a week; the heat of the tropics has been followed by temperature which reminds one of other and colder regions. This may be due to the Gulf Stream, which has recently been very erratic; it may have had some connection with the equinoctial gales which are just now flying about; or the sun, like the leopard, may be vainly endeavouring to change his spots. The effect of these rapid transitions from heat to cold, however, is sure to be rather disastrous upon the health of delicate persons, and we wait to hear the reports of the various medical officers thereupon. The rainfall has, however, softened the ground for agricultural operations, it has refreshed the pastures, and most important of all, it has once more filled those natural and artificial reservoirs which it seems only a month's warm weather generally dries up.  The sewers, too, have been flushed somewhat effectively, and those governing bodies who were not unreasonably alarmed at the probable scarcity of water a short time ago, can now rest and be thankful. The unlucky farmers, whose crops were not ripe, or whose skill in agricultUre was not equal to the occasion, are now lamenting over their soaked sheaves, while they vainly envy their more fortunate neighbours whose corn has been securely garnered in the stackyard or the pocket—that somewhat safer and less bulky receptacle.  THE horrible attempt to destroy a train loaded with innocent passengers on the London and North-Western line has met with universal execration, but singularly enough opinions differ very materially as to the motive which prompted so diabolical a deed. It was thought by some that plunder must have been the object of the miscreants, who believed that a large amount of cash and valuables would be secured out of the wrecked train. But although we can understand a man committing murder in order to effect a burglary—a very rare occurence, the mind refuses to contemplate a theory involving the wholesale destruction and mutilation of a whole train-load of innocent people for the sake of what booty might be secured in the confusion. Then we were told that some discharged railway servants sought thus to wreak their vengeance on the company. This is out of the bounds of all reason. Next we hear that the whole thing was the work of a madman. This would be perhaps the most explicable way out of the difficulty, did not ' the experts wlio have examined the infernal machine and the locus-in-quo assert that no madman could have planned, and that no one person, madman or otherwise, could have executed this deep-laid design. The probability points to more than one, while the theory that the case of dynamite accidentally fell out of a passing train, and that the connecting tube was accidentally filled with powder and percussion caps, is totally inadmissible. The latest theory of all would seem to be the one most likely, and that is that the secret society known as Nihilists, who have hesitated at nothing in Russia, are trying their hands at the same game in this country. This is the more to be believed when we hear that the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE was to have travelled by the train which the dynamite was probably laid to wreck, but changed his mind at the last moment and went by the Great Northern. In any case we hope the detectives will clear the matter up, for if we are to have Nihilism and its consequences in this country, we shall have to bar the entrance into it of Russian Grand Dukes.  • 4 0