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NEW-JERSEY. NEWARK. General Joseph E. Plume, cashier of the Manufacturers' National Bank, Newark, was appointed yesterday by Chancellor McGill as receiver of the Newark in place of Receiver George Wilkinson, deceased. The remaining assets comprise $20,000 of the old account and about $4,000 of the new, besides some securities on which nothing can be realized, including about $100,000 of repudiated Alabama State bonds issued in the reconstruction period. In the Chancery Court yesterday Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet made an order in the habeas corpus proceedings of Mrs. Mary Wendel against her husband, Dr. Augustus V. Wendel, to gain possession of her daughter, six months old. The Vice-Chancellor ordered that the child be taken to the wife for two hours each day on three days of the week. until the further disposition by the Court. Counsel for the husband said that the child had been taken away from the mother because she was not taking proper care of it, and that the mother's nourishment was poisonous because of drugs she had taken. The truth of this was denied by the wife. A suit for $20,000 damages was begun yesterday against the Consolidated Traction Company by Mrs. George L. Halliday, of No. 10 McWharter-st. It is alleged that Mrs. Halliday was SO badly injured by the sudden starting of an electric car from which she was alighting that her limbs are paralyzed.