Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

In the Cutting affair, Mexican lawyers appear to be of the opinion that the decision had been arrived at before the trial began. They think he will be sentenced to two years’ imprisonment Cutting is an American citizen who, up to the time of his arrest, published a paper called El Centincla in the Spanish language at Paso del Norte, Mexico. In that paper he made an attack upon a Mexican named Emiglio Medina, who was about to establish a rival sheet in the same town. Medina had him arrested and taken before a Mexican court, where he was forced to retract the slander or libel, or whatever it was, and then set at liberty. It seems that almost immediately ho recrossed the Rio Grande, going to El Paso in Texas, and there had printed in the Herald of that town, a paper published in English and Spanish, the following card: In a late issue of El Centinela, published in Paso del Norte, Mex., I made the assertion that Emiglio Medina was a fraud, and that the Spanish newspaper he proposed to issue in Paso del Norte was a scheme to swindle advertisers, etc. This morning said Medina took the matter to a Mexican court, where I was forced to sign a reconciliation. Now, I do hereby reiterate my original assertion that said Emiglio Medina is a fraud,.and add deadbeat to tno same ; also that bis taking advantage of tho Mexican law and forcing me to a reconciliation was contemptible and cowardly, and ilf keeping with the odious reputation of said Emiglio Medina. Should the said Emiglio Medina desire American satisfaction for this reiteration, I will be pleased to grant him all he may desire at any time and in any manner. A. K. Cutting. On his return to Paso del Norte lie was rearrested for libel and contempt of court and thrown into the vile Mexican jail, where he now is. The Payson bill, prohibiting aliens from holding lands in the Territories, has passed the National House of Representatives. The new one-dollar certificate will bear a copy of the Stuart portrait of Martha Washington. A portrait of Gen. Hancock will adorn tho two-dollar certificate.