Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], February 28, 1860
It is entirely useless to give words of caution and advice in the paper, unless people profit by it. Our fast young men should paste the following in the crowns of their hats: On Sunday morning last a young gentleman dressed in the most elegant extreme of fashion, with his hat on one side of his head, a long nine in the other corner of his mouth, a rattan in his right hand, covered with mouse colored gloves, came to the corner of Laurel, leading into Lafayette street, and instead of making a wide turn on the side-walk, hugged the corner and would have shaved it close but for the fact that a small colored individual with a plate of eggs, essayed to do the same in order to get into Laurel street by the shortest cut. A collision was the consequence—the plate was knocked out of the hand of the colored individual and the contents lost on the person of the young gent. It was about the church time of day, and the street was full of ladies, the young man vanished—it is supposed, into Greenwald’s Lager Saloon, as he has not been heard of since, we note the fact to prevent a sensation advertisement on the part of his friends, who may think that he has been abducted, or foully dealt with.