poor "blind man's week was up in one house, the person whose turn it was to have him the next week, would come and carry him home on his back. Patrick Morrisey , the first settler in Newton arrived with a wife and large family, and five shillings in his pocket; this sum his wife invested in the purchase of some barn door fowl. Among this feathered tribe, there must have been a goose who laid golden eggs, for Morrissey prospered exceedingly and his house was one in which new comers to the settlement, ever found a lodging and a warm Irish welcome. He owned the first horse in Nrwton, which animal, strange to say, was indirectly the cause of his sudden death. While returning from a meeting of the parishoners of Vernon River at their chapel in the year 1835. n« fel1 from his saddle and was killed. The first horse in Montague settlement was owned by one Martin Daly who was the earliest Catholic settler in Montague. At his house the priest from Vernon River usually held his station prior to the building of St. Michael's church. The second horse in Montague was owned by one John O'Shea . This poor old animal " Dick " was a much imposed upon quadraped and performed many services for the settlers, often trotting backwards and forwards to Charlottetown , attached .to the rough shafts of a "slide car", still he lived to a good round age and has yet a place in the memory of the people of Montpgue.