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Kxtraerdtnary Case of Arif-'Destruction.
There are men who can perpetrate a great offence simply that they may achieve notoriety by the act, and such a man seems to have been the wretched John Itlnour, who, on Sa turday, hurried himself out of existence by swallowing a dose of laudanum, at Chicago, 111. The circumstances are detailed by The TinUs as follows:
" The man Illnour had been employed as a