Lying at the Point of Death

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Veit is lying at the point of death at the family residence on Upper Fifth street near the railroad.. She was taken sick about a year ago, and for the last five months has been confined to her bed. During the past week she has been speechless and almost unconscious. The disease of which she is suffering and which will soon cause her death is cancer of the stomach, and her sufferings have been of an excrutiating character.. Madame Veit, as she is generally known here, is about 50 years of age, was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and came to this country in 1849. Her husband, John T. Veit, is a shoemaker, but for many years the Madame has been the business manager of the family, having made considerable money, and accumulated a handsome property in the business of fortune telling. Many citizens of New Albany and the surrounding country have gone to her to learn the mysteries of the future, or to have revealed some hidden things of the past.. Philosophers say there is a vein of superstition running through us all, and certain it is that there have been found enough people believing in the occult mystery of fortune-telling to enable Madame Veit to accumulate a small fortune.. There are few people more generally known in New Albany than the subject of this sketch, and whatever may be said of her calling, she had many friends, especially among the poorer classes.