Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:
- Harry COOPER, colored, captured a small shart at the mouth of the Roanoke river on Saturday last, while fishing with a net. It was about seven feet long and when brought to town created much excitement. This makes the second shark caught in these waters of late.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 20 September 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.