Johnston County NcArchives News.....Mrs. Potts Injured June 18, 1851
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July 2, 1851    Charlotte Journal June 18, 1851
   A SINGULAR ACCIDENT -- On Saturday last, MRS. POTTS, wife of MAJOR JAMES 
POTTS, of Johnston County, was seriously injured in the following singular 
manner. She had placed a stone crock upon the cooking stove, for the purposes 
of sweetening it, where she had let it remain until it became as hot as she 
desired it and bearing it away in her hands, when it exploded with a report 
something like that of a pistol, and flying into a thousand pieces, felled her 
to the floor. She was badly hurt about the face and eyes, and fears were at 
first entertained that she would lose her eyesight. Happily, however, her eyes 
are safe, the only material injuries being about her face and breast.
                                                 -- Johnston Echo

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